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Eight powerful men, including a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, were in federal court Thursday, entering pleas in a massive state corruption scheme.
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For the past two weeks, a former top aide to governor Cuomo has been on trial for corruption.
Joe Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, and seven co-defendants were arraigned today on federal corruption charges.
First up on Jan. 22 is the trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to the governor, and others related to alleged corruption and bribery in connection with Cuomo's economic development efforts.
The jury is deadlocked in the federal corruption trial of former top aide to Governor Cuomo, Joe Percoco.
The Senate also confirmed one of Cuomo's two MTA Board nominees — Larry Schwartz, a former top aide to the governor who is now working in the private sector for an airport services company called OTG Management, to replace Republican Andrew Saul.
But a top aide to the governor said it might be awhile before the proposals could become law and take effect.
John Cahill is a former top aide to Governor George Pataki.
Over the weekend, news broke that top aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo are being probed by the U.S. Attorney in connection with the Buffalo Billion economic development project.
Last week — Sunshine Week — saw the conviction of a former top aide to Governor Cuomo, a man who was once described as «brother» to the governor.
Maloney, who served as White House staff secretary under Bill Clinton and was a top aide to governors Spitzer and Paterson, said he was not chiefly motivated to support Quinn simply because she would be New York City's first female and first openly gay mayor.
Sean Finnerty, who headed natural gas development at Competitive Power Ventures, said it was a «red flag» when government relations executive Peter Galbraith Kelly told him the money was going to a spouse of a top aide to the governor of New York.
Among those who face trial next year, a former top aide to the governor, and the former head of the State University of New York's nanotech science program.
A former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo had to appear in federal court Thursday as he prepares to be tried on corruption charges, but all of the drama occurred outside of the courtroom.
Jurors in a Manhattan federal court will start hearing testimony next week on charges of bribery and corruption against a former top aide to the governor, two Syracuse business executives and an energy company official.
A former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo is spearheading a media campaign to require insurers to offer out - of - network benefits as part of their health exchange plans next year.
And on Friday, DiNapoli in a radio interview on WCNY suggested he would support more controls for the state's procurement process after nine people — including a former top aide to the governor — were arrested in connection to an alleged bribery and kickback scheme.
And in between, an accomplice to a former top aide to Governor Cuomo pled guilty.
At the same time, economic development programs upstate have fallen under the scrutiny of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office, who is investigating a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe.
Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has been outspoken in his opposition to a gas power plant under construction in Orange County, says the project should be scrapped altogether in the wake of the corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, which showed the company behind it, Competitive Power Ventures, allegedly bribed a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, seeking favorable treatment from the administration.
Back in December 2014, a top aide to the governor, Jim Malatras, broached the subject in a letter to the regents chancellor and then - state education commissioner that was widely seen as the first salvo in what would be a protracted battle over reform.
Jurors in a Manhattan federal court will start hearing testimony next week on charges of bribery and corruption against a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, two Syracuse business executives and an energy company official.
John Cahill, a former top aide to Governor George Pataki, is the Republican candidate running against Schneiderman.
(WBEN / AP) As expected, a judge has delayed and split the trials of top aides to Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the companies - including Buffalo's LP Ciminelli Corp. - they are accused of working with to rig bids on the Buffalo Billion economic development effort.
One question raised publicly about the referral stems from the fact that it omitted any mention of the Cuomo - controlled State Democratic Committee, despite the facts that a top aide to the governor was aware of de Blasio's plans and the statewide party similarly aided Senate candidates.
SUNY Board Member Hank Dullea, who is a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo's father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, says state funding has decreased over the past couple of decades, and students have had to pick up the slack.
The state capitol is bracing for a parade of corruption trials this year that began Monday with jury selection in the case against former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco.
State Sen. John DeFrancisco, who is seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination, challenged Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday to «man up» and explain the ethics revelations emerging from the bribery trial of a longtime top aide to the governor.
Following the arrest of a top aide to Governor Cuomo and several high - profile leaders in the business community last week, New York State's Joint Commission on Public Ethics met in Albany on Tuesday.
The ousted head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo and six business leaders pleaded not guilty to extortion, bribery and bid - rigging charges in federal court today.
A federal grand jury has returned a second superseding indictment in a major corruption case involving Joe Percoco, a former top aide to the governor who was snared in a state economic development scandal.
The working group includes Melissa DeRosa, the top aide to the governor and the first woman to hold that post.
ALBANY — In recent weeks, aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have been concerned about keeping secret a 2007 memo written by a top aide to the governor, Linda Lacewell, when Mr. Cuomo was attorney general.
Bharara is also investigating two people: Todd Howe, a lobbyist and close Cuomo family associate, and Joe Percoco, a former top aide to the governor.
In the first trial a top aide to the governor is facing decades in the slammer if convicted (of course everyone is innocent until proven guilty).
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.
With word that a former top aide to Governor Cuomo is under investigation, the Governor has ordered his own probe into a major economic development project in Western New York.
Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli, two of his executives and a top aide to Governor Cuomo have been indicted in the Buffalo Billion probe.
The 80 - page complaint names Joe Percoco, until recently a top aide to the governor, and the head of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, who is the highest paid official in the state.
What are the credentials of this man to be working as a top aide to the Governor?
ALBANY — Louis Ciminelli and the other Buffalo defendants will be tried separately from Joseph Percocco, a former top aide to the governor, even though all eight defendants were part of the federal prosecution alleging bid rigging and corruption in state development projects.
In December, Schneiderman sent a similar letter lambasting Cuomo's proposal to create a special criminal prosecutor to handle procurement matters — an action seen as a response to the federal investigation into upstate development projects that resulted in the arrest of a former top aide to the governor, among others.
A top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo who had been planning to take a position with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will now be in charge of managing the Thruway Authority's transition to new leadership, following the abrupt resignation of two authority officials.
The stink of corruption continues to linger over Cuomo's administration, with one former top aide to the governor recently convicted of fraud and accepting bribes, and another headed to trial on corruption charges in June.
In the other alleged scheme, the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, and COR — both Howe clients — paid bribes to Joseph Percoco, who at the time was either a top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo or, for a stint in 2014, the manager of Cuomo's reelection campaign.
According to the Times, top aides to the governor had a direct line to the executive director of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption, and exterted influence to dissuade inquiries and rescind subpoenas to entities connected to the governor.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D.) favorability and job performance ratings have plummeted in the past month amid an ongoing federal corruption trial of a former top aide to the governor, according to a new poll.
----------------------------------- U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced Today that former top aide to Governor Cuomo; Joseph Percoco and 8 others are facing a wide array of federal corruption and bribery charges.
Governor David Paterson is under siege with a series of swirling controversies... the awarding of bids for the Aqueduct racino, his conversations with a woman who has accused a top aide to the governor of domestic violence, and the cloud over how the governor obtained Yankees» World Series tickets.
ALBANY — A top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo has been consulting with the Tax Foundation — a Washington - based organization the administration once denounced as a «right - wing think tank» — as lawmakers consider a number of tax cuts in the state budget.