Zhou told jurors that defense lawyers purposely sought to confuse them over the past month - and - a-half in what he said, in the end, is a «simple case» of a top government official allegedly selling his position of power in the Cuomo administration to executives whose companies allegedly got millions of dollars» worth of insider help from Percoco with everything from
stalled government payments for a Syracuse
construction project to help with an Orange County gas - fired power plant
development.
Empire State
Development has been given control of the
construction of the Athenex plants, projects that have been
stalled because the state hasn't been paying its bills.