A former Macomb County Public Works Commissioner, Anthony Marrocco, 73, has been sentenced to three months in prison and 14 months of home confinement for attempted extortion by withholding county permits from businessmen who refused to contribute to his campaign accounts.

A former Macomb County public works official who admitted extorting builders and contractors to buy tickets to political fundraisers has died before he could be sentenced for his crime.

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. Just a day after federal authorities announced charges against former Macomb County Commissioner of Public Works Anthony Marrocco, the other key figure in the Macomb County corruption case pleaded guilty. READ: Former Macomb County Commissioner of Public Works indicted for extortionDino Bucci, who was formerly a county trustee and then became a deputy to Marrocco in the public works department, appeared before a judge via video on Thursday. He admitted to pressuring developers and contractors to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on tickets to Marroccos fundraisers. READ: Macomb Township Trustee Dino Bucci arraigned on 18 counts of corruptionBucci, 60, is facing 9-10 years in federal prison. View the indictment from 2017 below:READ: Metro Detroit trash magnate Chuck Rizzo pleads guilty to bribery, could face 10 years in prison

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. Former Macomb County Commissioner of Public Works Anthony Marrocco is accused of extorting county contractors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A federal indictment claims Marrocco threatened to pull municipal contracts and withhold permits from contractors unless he received the payments. Click here to read more about the entire Macomb County bribery case. Here is the full federal indictment for Marrocco: