Federal convict, and yoga student, Kevin McCarty is half-way home

Kevin McCarty and Mary at a court appearance in March (Palm Beach Post photo) Kevin McCarty , the husband of jailed former Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty , has left the federal prison camp he was sent to in the wake of the public corruption scandal that ensnared the power couple. According to records. the 60-year-old Kevin was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Miami Oct. 27. On the same day, he checked into a half-way house downtown West Palm Beach operated by the Salvation Army, for which McCarty and his family ironically raised hundreds of thousands over the years. “I’m almost done,” McCarty told Page2Live in an exclusive interview. His release date is Jan. 24. “I’m extremely gratified about how folks have reached out to me to support me over the past few months.” McCarty, a former chairman of the South Florida Water Management District and a bonds trader, started serving in May his eight-month sentence for not reporting his wife’s misdeeds, including her commission votes on issues that financially benefited both of them. Upon arrival at the prison camp, McCarty found out he’d sleep two bunk-beds away from the first commissioner to fall in a wave of political scandals that shook the county’s establishment in 2006-07, Tony Masilotti . Masilotti is serving five years for using his elected office in crooked land deals from which he may have made as much as $10 million. “I saw a lot of Tony,” McCarty said. “When I got there and we saw each other for the first time, we just had to laugh. He was a gentleman to me from day one. We’ve become friends.” For more, how McCarty took up yoga, and the poll, look below or click Masilotti (Palm Beach Post photo) Masilotti was known as the nemesis of McCarty’s wife on the county commission. He once wondered out loud if McCarty flew through county hall on a broom. Masilotti, Kevin McCarty said, works at the camp

chapel, as janitor, and has become a work-out fiend. He is on a special diet because of acute diabetes. “There were personal trainers incarcerated with us,” McCarty said, “so Tony is working out with them. He is fit.” McCarty described how the inmates at the camp were awoken at 6 a.m. He first headed to the computer room to e-mail his wife, who’s serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence at a minimum security camp in Bryan, Texas. After breakfast, McCarty exercised for an hour on the prison outdoors track, showered then reported to his job, as a food service worker. “In the afternoon, there’d be a nap at 1 p.m. Then I’d get back to work. It was lights out at 10 p.m.” McCarty also got spiritual on us. “I did a lot of yoga,” he said. “I was in this group with five guys and we did it several times a week. It helped. My first night there was pretty depressing. But after that, you get used to it. Now, McCarty lives at the Salvation Army on weekdays. He is allowed to drive his 2008 Trail Blazer to Delray every morning so he can report to his secretarial job at a law offfice. He earns minimum wage running documents to the courthouse and answering the phones. Back at the halfway house, his nightly chores includes cleaning showers. He also pays 25 percent of his meager salary to the Salvation Army for room and board. “On weekend, I get to stay with my mother-in-law,” he said. Mary McCarty’s mother, well-known political-campaign worker Jeanne Ray , lives nearby. So, what’ll happen after Kevin is sprung for good? “On the first weekend, I’ll fly to Texas to see Mary,” he said. “After that, we’ll see.” Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

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