Cuomo Aides Indicted?

[Terrel L. Shields]

http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/269601/percoco-kaloyeros-six-others-indicted/



Cuomo has consistently said he had no knowledge....

• Peter G. Kelly of Competitive Power Ventures, a Maryland-based outfit that is seeking to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Orange County. Kelly is charged in two counts, including bribing Percoco by providing his wife, a school teacher, with a “low-show” job worth $7,500 a month.
• Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi of the Syracuse-area company COR Development, which worked on a handful of large SUNY Poly projects. The pair face six counts apiece with charges including wire fraud, bribery and making false statements to federal investigators.
• Louis Ciminelli, Michael Laipple and Kevin Schuler of LPCiminelli, a Buffalo-based developer that secured the contract to construct the massive Riverbend solar panel plant that’s the keystone of Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” revitalization initiative. They each face a single bribery charge and two counts of wire fraud.

The Riverbend contract is estimated to be worth approximately $705 million, while COR reaped roughly $105 million from two other state projects.

 

[djd09]

 

[jay trotta]

Interesting Read;
Percoco’s ties to Cuomo go back to the administration of the governor’s father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo. Percoco also served the younger Cuomo during his years in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, and in his single term as state attorney general.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

To quote a famous Arkansas governor, "I don't respect a man who cannot make a good living in public office."- Orval Faubus

 

[AMF13]

Better ask his lawyers how that Sgt Schultz defense works out.
There must be ample precedent.

I was almost afraid to click on Gomer. He might sing!