But, Coffey said, Aiello didn't
engage in any bribery scheme with Howe and Percoco.
Prosecutors say he and another Cor Development executive, who was cleared of all charges Tuesday,
engaged in a bribery scheme with Percoco.
Not exact matches
Percoco, often described as Cuomo's right - hand man and a «brother» is accused of
engaging in two separate
bribery schemes with companies doing business with the state.
Joseph Percoco, a former top aide and confidant of Cuomo, as well as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's founding President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and officials at some of upstate New York's most prominent development firms were charged
in a federal complaint with allegedly
engaging in two overlapping
schemes involving
bribery, corruption and fraud
in the award of hundreds of millions of dollars
in state contracts and other official benefits.
To prove the
bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was
engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.
«What we have learned so far
in this trial is that the Governor is unequivocally responsible for the environment that allowed his closest aide and confidante to
engage in these massive
bribery and kickback
schemes,» said Chairman Ed Cox.
Two Cor executives — along with a former vice president at an energy company — are on trial with Percoco over whether they
engaged in an alleged
bribery scheme in which payments allegedly flowed to Percoco and his wife
in return for the former senior Cuomo adviser helping them.
Bruno, 85, is facing his second trial for depriving the public of the right to honest services by
engaging in what prosecutors described as a «quid pro quo
bribery scheme.»
The Manganos and Venditto have pleaded not guilty and assert they are victims of a plot by Long Island restaurateur Harendra Singh to get leniency for his own crimes by falsely claiming they
engaged in a
bribery - and - kickback
scheme.
To prove the
bribery scheme, the government will be tasked with convincing that Mr. Silver was
engaged in a quid pro quo with Mr. Taub and the real estate industry, trading the power he wielded over state money and laws that govern real estate for money.