Singh, taking the stand for the first time as the government's star
witness in its federal corruption case
against Mangano, retraced the arc of his life and career to the jury in the
Central Islip courtroom.
In a 90 - minute closing argument, Christopher P. Conniff, a defense lawyer, told jurors that the case
against State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam, amounted to little more than distractions, snippets of conversations taken out of context, and self - serving lies from two
central witnesses.