Guldi Finds Himself In Jail He Once Helped Manage

In a special section of the Suffolk County Jail in Riverside, set aside for high-risk or high-profile inmates, there is a suite of four cells, each 6 feet by 8 feet, surrounding a common area. In this housing unit, as it is known in the jail, separated from the rest of the jail’s approximately 1,600 prisoners is David Laffer, the man accused of executing five people during a drug store robbery in Medford; Reginald Ross, who purportedly killed a man in hopes that another man he had a mark on would attend the funeral; a major narcotics trafficker; and former Suffolk County Legislator George O. Guldi.

“I have some interesting new friends and neighbors,” Mr. Guldi said in the visiting room last week. “David Laffer—he’s a book.”

Mr. Guldi, his head shorn... more