Posted on 03/13/2018 7:16:45 PM PDT by Beave Meister
NEW YORK – A former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo was convicted on corruption charges Tuesday at a trial that further exposed the state capital's culture of backroom deal-making.
A federal jury in Manhattan found Joseph Percoco guilty of two counts of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of soliciting bribes after deliberating for parts of three weeks.
"Joseph Percoco was found guilty of taking over $300,000 in cash bribes by selling something priceless that was not his to sell – the sacred obligation to honestly and faithfully serve the citizens of New York," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said.
Jurors had informed the court twice that they were deadlocked in the case against Percoco and three businessmen accused of paying his family more than $300,000 in bribes, but U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni ordered them to keep deliberating and on Tuesday said she would accept a partial verdict.
Percoco was acquitted of two extortion counts and one of the bribery charges he had faced.
The jury also convicted one of the businessmen charged with paying the bribes, Steven Aiello, an executive at a Syracuse area development company, Cor Development. A second executive with the company, Joseph Gerardi, was acquitted on all counts. The jury said it couldn't reach a unanimous decision on a fourth defendant in the case, energy company executive Peter Galbraith Kelly.
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the sacred obligation to honestly and faithfully serve the citizens of New York,
This is a joke right?? Since when did anyone ever think that in new york?
Cuomo even looks like a criminal.
Because he is.
Replace the name Cuomo with Trump and it would be all wall to wall coverage for the next year. Being its Cueball, it’ll go down the memory hole.
Cuomo, of course, knew nothing about what his closest aides and confidantes were doing.
You don’t believe it? OK, where is your evidence?
Hmmm. No word of this in the MSM.
Yeah, he oozes Mafioso.
Hullo Joe Percoco, meet Webb Hubbell, you and he might want to compare notes.
Yep!. Missed Crooked Cuomo by THAT MUCH!
If they couldn’t keep Sheldon Silver in jail this guy will walk
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