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Editorial Churchill: The conviction of Joe Percoco isn’t funny anymore

May 13, 2023 by l

 
“asta. They were obsessed with pasta.

“I have no ziti,” wrote Joe Percoco, then a top aide to Andrew Cuomo.

“Got to keep the ziti flowing,” countered Todd Howe, also once an aide to the former governor. “The ziti is in the oven,” Howe wrote in a different email. “Don’t burn the ziti,” he said in yet another.

The office of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara asserted that Percoco and Howe used “ziti” as a term for bribe money, a reference snatched from “The Sopranos.” Many of us, me included, have had some fun with the ziti thing over the years, partly because it was so remarkable that the dunderheads would talk about bribes so openly in emails.”
 
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Churchill. Albany Times Union 13 May 2023.
 

Posted in: Whiteman Osterman and Hanna Tagged: bid rigging, Buffalo Billions, corruption, editorial, Todd Howe, United States Supreme Court, Whiteman Osterman Hanna
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