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Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From Westchester Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From Westchester
Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From 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 …

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