Not exact matches
The former state Senate Majority Leader and his son are charged with theft, embezzlement, and misapplication of federal funds,
as well
as conspiracy to
commit wire fraud.
Percoco, 48, who served
as Cuomo's former campaign manager and deputy executive secretary, was facing six counts, but the jury found him guilty of only three: conspiracy to
commit honest services
fraud, conspiracy to
commit honest services
wire fraud and solicitation of bribes and gratuities, according to POLITICO.
Rechnitz pleaded guilty to conspiring to
commit honest services
fraud in connection with the
wire fraud scheme but is cooperating
as a witness for a lesser sentence, the complaint states.
Peter Galbraith Kelly, 54, of Canterbury, Conn., known
as Braith, a former executive with Competitive Power Ventures (CPV), a firm with business before the state, admitted to one count of conspiracy to
commit wire fraud before Judge Valerie Caproni in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Rechnitz is testifying
as a government witness under a cooperation deal forged when he pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to
commit honest services
wire fraud.
A ninth defendant, Todd Howe (a lobbyist who had worked for Cuomo
as an assistant when Cuomo headed the federal Housing and Urban Development Department and also worked for the governor's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo), has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
commit extortion,
wire fraud and other charges and is cooperating with investigators.
A federal investigator who applied for a search warrant days ago alleged that two of Robert C. Morgan's relatives — son Todd and nephew Kevin — may have
committed bank and
wire fraud as the Morgan real estate empire expanded across 14 states.
Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested an Israeli national & binary options CEO
as she landed in JFK airport on alleged charges of
wire fraud, securities
fraud and conspiracy to
commit wire fraud, carrying up to 40 years in a federal prison.
It is specifically illegal to misrepresent oneself using a computer under California code and
as Steve McIntyre points out, the action seems to clearly violate US code
as well — specifically
committing «
wire fraud.»