“Disgraced lobbyist Todd Howe was confronted Wednesday with evidence that he altered emails sent by Joe Percoco, a former aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who is accused of corruption, but Howe told a jury he does not recall how often he surreptitiously changed and forwarded Percoco’s missives.
Howe, a cooperating witness who was fired for stealing roughly $1 million from Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP in 2016 and pled guilty to corruption later that year, was forced to confront a blizzard of lies he told over the years as he was questioned by counsel for Percoco during a third week of trial before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni in Manhattan.”
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Brush, Pete. Law 360 7 February 2018.