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Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From Northern Westchester Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From Northern Westchester
Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From Northern Westchester The country's top court has reversed the wire-fraud conviction of a Northern Westchester County resident and former top aide to ousted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has already served years of prison time for the offense. In a decision on Thursday, May 11, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled to reverse the fraud conviction of Joseph Percoco, of the hamlet of South Salem in the town of Lewisboro, who was sent to federal prison on corruption charges in 2018.  Percoco, age 54, had been accused of accepting over $300,000 in bribes from an energy company in 2014 while he had been …
CT Man Admits To Pay-For-Play Scheme With Ex-Aide To NY Gov. Cuomo CT Man Admits To Pay-For-Play Scheme With Ex-Aide To NY Gov. Cuomo
CT Man Admits To Pay-For-Play Scheme With Ex-Aide To NY Gov. Cuomo A former executive at a Hudson Valley-headquartered power plant pleaded guilty to bribery for his role in a pay-to-play scheme involving a Northern Westchester resident and former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Former Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) executive Peter Kelly, 54, admitted in Manhattan Federal Court on Friday that to further his relationship with South Salem resident Joseph Percoco, he helped hire Percoco's wife to a $90,000, low-show job at CPV.  The guilty plea entered by Kelly, who is known as "Braith" and is a resident of Canterbury, Conn., was for defrauding CPV …