Singh details perks at Mangano's corruption trial
Harendra Singh’s venues hosted weddings for the families of the Nassau County GOP chairman, two sitting Oyster Bay town board members and a former town parks commissioner for tens of thousands of dollars less than he usually billed, he testified Monday.
Singh also recounted how former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda, were “consumed with panic” in preparing to explain her no-show job to the FBI.
The one-time restaurateur finished his testimony for prosecutors in the federal corruption case of the Manganos and former Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto in Central Islip, but faced the start of questioning by their defense teams.
Edward Mangano’s attorney, Kevin Keating of Garden City, sought to show jurors that Singh was motivated to cooperate with the government because he wanted to be freed from the Brooklyn jail where he had been held without bail.
Singh, 59, of Laurel Hollow, pleaded guilty in October 2016 to bribing Mangano and Venditto with perks ranging from free meals at his restaurants to Linda Mangano’s $100,000-a-year, no-show job in exchange for lucrative county contracts and millions of dollars in town loan guarantees.
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