Ernie Newton (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetErnie Newton (politician)
American politician
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1956
Place of Birth: Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Ernie Newton (politician)
- Ernest E.
- Newton (born February 21, 1956) is an American politician in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- Newton served for seventeen years in the Connecticut General Assembly, serving in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1988 to 2003 and in the Connecticut State Senate from 2003 to 2006.
- He pleaded guilty to federal felony corruption charges in September 2005 and served several years in federal prison.
- Newton was released in February 2010 and in 2012 unsuccessfully attempted a political comeback, losing in the primary in a race for his old state Senate seat.
- In 2015, Newton was convicted on separate state campaign finance fraud charges; those convictions were overturned on appeal in 2018.
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