January 24, 2009 07:55 AM UTC

NY: Corrupt Bastard Bruno Indicted

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• by: Libertad

Another corrupt bastard gets his just dues. I just have a sneaky suspicion that the Upstate USA will be sending this man to Sing Sing.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28…

Joseph Bruno, the former majority leader of the New York Senate and for a time the most powerful Republican in state politics, was indicted Friday on federal corruption charges.

Bruno, who retired from the Legislature in July after more than a dozen years leading the Senate, is accused of using his position to steer contracts and grants to businesses that paid him a total of $3.2 million in consulting fees or other compensation from 1993 through 2006, and then covering his tracks.

Prosecutors said in one instance, Bruno solicited officials from several labor unions with interests before state government to hire an investment firm that paid him $1.3 million over a 12-year period.

Bruno exploited “his official position for personal compensation and enrichment” in dealing with companies and 16 unions with business before the state, according to the 8-count indictment brought by the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.

After pleading not guilty, Bruno denounced the investigation as a witch hunt.

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