Al Dirschberger, the former commissioner of Erie County’s Department of Social Services, was released from prison last week after serving four years in custody on a 2019 rape conviction.
Former Erie County Social Services Commissioner Al Dirschberger was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for raping a 28-year-old subordinate while the two attended an Albany conference in 2017. Jurors last month found Dirschberger guilty after a weeklong trial, during which the woman accused Dirschberger of raping her in her hotel room while she was intoxicated. Dirschberger testified
He was sentenced to five years in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping a 28-year-old county social worker – his subordinate employee – while the two attended an Albany conference in 2017.
The conviction on two felony sex-related charges followed a weeklong trial. Dirschberger had been offered a plea deal that would have resulted in no jail time, but he refused the offer. He lost on his appeal of his conviction and sentence.
Dirschberger, 59, was released Wednesday from the Groveland Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in Livingston County, and will remain on parole for 10 years.
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