A former security supervisor at Tiffany & Company, who was acquitted in a daring $1.9 million robbery of the store, was sentenced yesterday to 5 to 15 years in prison for an earlier robbery of a Tiffany’s tiffany accessories sale.
Justice Edwin Torres of State Supreme Court in Manhattan implied that he believed that the supervisor, Scott Jackson, was behind both crimes, even though he was acquitted in the robbery at the jewelry store last Sept. 4.
In a surprise verdict last month, a jury in Supreme Court acquitted tiffany cuff links sale, who earned $40,000 a year, of planning the robbery, the largest in Tiffany’s 157-year history.
Mr. Jackson was acquitted of masterminding the store robbery, in which Mr. Klass and an associate who has since been convicted tied up security guards and stole 420 necklaces, rings and other jewelry. Most of the jewelry was recovered. If Mr. Jackson had been convicted of first and second degree robbery in the robbery, he would have faced a sentence of 12 1/2 to 25 years.
In seeking leniency, Mr. Fogelnest gave Justice Torres more than a dozen letters from family and friends depicting Mr. Jackson, as a good son, husband, father, friend and “a role model for young African-American tiffany key rings sale.”
But the judge said, “He betrayed his employer who had given him a leg up in life.”