Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s former top aide Joe Percoco, former SUNY
Polytechnic Institute President and CEO Alain Kaloyeros and six business
executives were named in a 14-count indictment that was released
Tuesday afternoon.
The indictment adds two charges of wire fraud to the crimes alleged
in a Sept. 22 criminal complaint against the same eight men. No
additional individuals were named, and the indictment does not reveal
that any of the defendants have decided to cooperate with prosecutors.
The new charges aside, the document contains few details that were
not revealed in the complaint, which ran past 80 pages and included
extensive excerpts from emailed communications traded among many of the
defendants.
The indictment — handed up a day before a pushed-back deadline that
had been agreed to last month by all parties — lays out what prosecutors
describe as two overlapping schemes devised to enrich development
companies and the public officials who were doing their bidding. Percoco
was joined at the center of the alleged effort by Todd Howe, a lobbyist
and consultant who has been a decades=long associate of both Percoco
and Cuomo.
The favors allegedly doled out by the state officials included
pressure applied to state agencies, a raise for the son of one of the
executives who was working for the governor’s office, and details on
upcoming contracts that provided a competitive advantage to the firms.
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Source: TimesUnion (via The Empire Report)
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