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Two and a half years after a federal jury found him guilty of accepting illegal gratuities while he was CEO of Melrose Credit Union, Alan Kaufman, 64, has finally begun his 46-month prison sentence.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons listed the former credit union executive last week at a medium security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp and detention center in Otisville, N.Y., about 80 miles northwest of New York City. The FBOI listed the prison's inmate population of 1,070, which is actually larger than the village of Otisville's population of 969, the U.S. Census Bureau showed.

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