Whiteman Osterman and Hanna

Proctors Ambassador program receives $250K in sponsorship deal

  ” The Proctors Collaborative Ambassador program will receive $250,000 over a five-year joint sponsorship with Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, a law firm based in Albany, and Albany-based business advisory firm BST & Co. CPAs LLP, Proctors announced on Tuesday. The Ambassador program brings trained ambassador staffers to city streets in Schenectady, Saratoga Springs … [Read more…]

NY Law Firm Botched Gas Co. Sale, Ex-Client Says

  “Albany, New York-based Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP is facing a lawsuit in New York federal court alleging it failed to properly structure the sale of a gas company and caused its owner to incur an avoidable tax liability. In a complaint filed Wednesday, J. David Mahoney said that despite the law firm and its lawyer claiming … [Read more…]

Riverhead Town Board wrap-up: Nov. 21

  “Authorized the supervisor to sign an engagement letter with the law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna as special counsel for tax certiorari (property tax grievance) litigation. The town’s current tax certiorari counsel, the law firm of Lewis & Greer, which was hired by the town in January 2022, is closing and all partners … [Read more…]

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

  “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 … [Read more…]

Supreme Court Reverses Conviction Of Ex-Cuomo Aide From South Salem

  “The country’s top court has reversed the wire-fraud conviction of a Northern Westchester County resident and former top aide to ousted New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has already served years of prison time for the offense. . . . The bribes that he had accepted were to benefit Competitive Power Ventures, an energy … [Read more…]

Top court deals blow to corruption cases

  “The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously overturned the 2018 “Buffalo Billion” bid-rigging convictions of SUNY Polytechnic Institute founder Alain Kaloyeros and three upstate businessmen while also reversing the fraud-related conviction earlier that year of Joseph Percoco, the once powerful top aide to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Kaloyeros, who left war-torn Lebanon and … [Read more…]

U.S. Supreme Court tosses former Cuomo aide’s bribery conviction

  “The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the bribery conviction of Joseph Percoco, an ex-aide to Democratic former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a ruling that further limits the ability of federal prosecutors to pursue corruption cases. The justices ruled 9-0 in favor of Joseph Percoco, Cuomo’s former executive deputy secretary who was … [Read more…]

Commentary: A new environmental right will mean much for New Yorkers

  “Protection of our environment, most would agree, is the defining issue of our time. Mindful of this, last year New York voters approved an amendment to our state constitution’s Bill of Rights providing that “each person shall have the right to clean air and water, and to a healthful environment.” In those 15 words … [Read more…]

Landfill tells environmental group to pull defamatory criticism from website; SLG says ‘no’

  “A Manhattan attorney representing Seneca Meadows Inc. landfill has demanded that Seneca Lake Guardian, a local non-profit environmental group, remove “false and defamatory statements” about SMI from its website. SLG founders Joseph Campbell and Yvonne Taylor refused to do so and said they would not be bullied into silence by the state’s largest landfill. … [Read more…]