The trial, expected to last four to six weeks, will have plenty of
seamy detail about backroom dealings, court filings suggest — from jokes about wanting more «zitti» in alleged coded references to bribes taken from «The Sopranos,» to using clout to influence state agencies and routing more than $ 300,000 in alleged payoffs to Percoco through his wife.
Court papers in the two cases suggest that testimony in Federal District Court will expose in granular
detail what watchdog groups say is a
seamy world where big money and politics have long intersected with government.