Posted on 11/22/2016 5:26:34 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
A federal grand jury indicted former Gov. Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco Tuesday for allegedly hustling upstate companies that wanted profitable government contracts, prosecutors said.
The feds charged Percoco — Cuomo's ex-executive secretary and campaign manager — with six corruption counts in September.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged seven others in relation to the pay-to-play plot, whom a grand jury also indicted.
They include the onetime honcho of State University of New York Polytchnic Institute, as well as six execs from prominent Upstate firms.
Todd Howe, another Cuomo confidant-turned-lobbyist, secretly copped to corruption charges two days before cops collared Percoco — and said during his plea hearing he had been working with the feds since June.
The 80-page criminal complaint in September revealed Percoco's alleged dirty dealings reached the highest levels of Cuomo's administration. . .
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I didn’t forget :)
No elected office for either of us!
Though local Staten Island office wouldn’t be affected.
Maybe you’d be OK locally too :)
...in UTAH...with these Mormons??? ROFL...
Sounds pretty familiar if you do a name substitution, and you-know-who even hustled entire governments for favorable treatment, but so far, no prosecution.
So usually when I see stories with names but no political affiliations I assume the press is covering for Democrats. For those of us who aren’t familiar with those particular local politicians can someone confirm or deny my bias?
Plenty of time for pardons then.
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