U.S. Supreme Court to weigh Cuomo-era New York corruption cases
Source: Reuters
U.S. Supreme Court to weigh Cuomo-era New York corruption cases
Nate Raymond
Sun, November 27, 2022 at 8:06 AM·4 min read
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider a pair of cases that could it harder to pursue public corruption prosecutions - bids by an ex-aide to Democratic former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and a businessman to reverse bribery and fraud convictions.
The justices are set to hear arguments in the appeals by Joseph Percoco and Louis Ciminelli, who were charged in related cases in 2016 as part of a corruption crackdown by federal prosecutors in Manhattan centered on the halls of the state capital of Albany.
The eventual rulings by the justices, expected by the end of June, also will affect three co-defendants charged in corruption and fraud cases during Cuomo's tenure as governor involving state contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Rulings favoring the defendants could curtail prosecutors from charging a variety cases as wire frauds and limit their ability to pursue certain classes of bribery cases, according to Jaimie Nawaday, a former federal prosecutor now working at the Seward & Kissel law firm.
"Prosecutors could face a constriction of their ability to bring charges based on novel and expansive readings of the fraud statutes," Nawaday said.
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