Audio recordings released by the US Attorney's
office at the corruption trial of Senator Dean Skelos aim to show that the Senate Leader and his son colluded to use Skelo's official position to help his son get employment.
Audio recordings released by the U.S. Attorney's
office at the corruption trial of State Senator Dean Skelos of Long Island aim to show that the Senate Leader and his son colluded to use Skelos» official position to help his son get employment, in what turned out to be a succession of no show jobs.
Not exact matches
Speaking
at a press conference outside the
office of the CFB Malliotakis referenced the recent testimony of Jona Rechnitz in the federal
corruption trial of Norman Seabrook on his political contributions to de Blasio and, according to Rechnitz, the mayor's responsiveness to his requests in exchange for those contributions.
Maguire testified
at the federal
corruption trial of Mangano, who left
office last year, and former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto.
Unmentioned in the
trial was that Bonomo's namesake son was working as an executive assistant in Cuomo's
Office of Storm Recovery when the agency allocated the money to the sewer projects
at the core of the
corruption scheme.
Ed Cox cited evidence presented
at Percoco's ongoing
corruption trial showing the former aide using the executive chamber's Manhattan
offices more than 60 times from May 2014 to December 2014 when he was running the governor's re-election campaign and was not on the state payroll.
Observers will be watching to see how well he raises campaign cash, and also how he manages candidate recruitment — especially
at a time when he has a number of aging members and two — including his predecessor, Dean Skelos; and his deputy majority leader, Tom Libous; facing federal
corruption trials that could result in their abrupt ouster from
office.
On Tuesday, as his
office began its closing arguments in the
corruption trial of former Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos, Bharara broke new ground —
at least for him — and joined Twitter.
We got a good peek
at this crafty, high - level cynicism
at the 2009
corruption trial where Espada's former Republican ally, Joe Bruno, was convicted of using his
office to win high - paying private clients.
Joe Percoco's appearances
at the governor's
office in Manhattan during the 2014 was among the revelations that came out in his
corruption trial last month.
Cox also accused the governor of trying to send a message to Vance
at at time when the Republicans have formally called on the prosecutor to investigate the Cuomo administration for
corruption after it was revealed in a federal
trial that Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, continued to use his government
office after leaving the state payroll to run Cuomo's 2014 re-eelction campaign, which would violate state law.
Preet Bharara, the United States attorney whose
office recently won the
corruption convictions of two of New York's most powerful legislators, says that Albany's problems are deep and systemic but that potential solutions are not hard to find: They lie in the nitty - gritty evidence presented
at the unprecedented
trials.