NY Gov. Cuomo’s top advisor sentenced to six years – Pickett/NYTimes
❝ Joseph Percoco, a former top adviser and confidant to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday in a case that cast a long and unflattering shadow over the Cuomo administration.
Mr. Percoco, 49, was convicted in March of soliciting and accepting more than $300,000 in bribes from executives of two companies with state business in return for taking official actions on the firms’ behalf.
❝ “I hope that this sentence will be heard in Albany,” Judge Valerie E. Caproni, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said before sentencing.
She said the case had reached to the highest level of the executive branch. “Frankly, it’s not surprising that the citizenry of this state have absolutely lost faith in their government.”
My question, of course, is…Anyone surprised?
DemoPublicans…as noted previously at this blog, “A plague on both their houses!”
No surprises here. I grew up just outside Albany and everybody knew that Boss Tweed’s legacy lived on in the State Capitol.