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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 … [Read more…]

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

Top court deals blow to corruption cases

May 12, 2023 by l

  “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…]

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

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

May 11, 2023 by l

  “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…]

Posted in: Whiteman Osterman and Hanna Tagged: Andrew Cuomo, bid rigging, bribery, fraud, Joseph Percoco, Louis Ciminelli, Samuel Alito, Todd Howe, Yaakov Roth

Corruption trial bruises powerful law firm

March 24, 2018 by l

  “Over the past 43 years, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna became one of New York’s largest and most prominent legal and lobbying firms. In just eight days at the recent political corruption trial of Joe Percoco and three businessmen, it gained a less prestigious distinction: the firm that employed Todd R. Howe, a convicted felon … [Read more…]

Posted in: Whiteman Osterman and Hanna Tagged: bid rigging, Buffalo Billions, court, crime, fraud, Todd R. Howe, Whiteman Osterman Hanna

SUNY Polytechnic Office Scoured for Evidence of Bid Rigging

May 26, 2016 by l

  “Agents arrived with search warrants and looked through an office used by Todd R. Howe, who has past ties to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo…”   read the entire article   New York Times 26 May 2016.  

Posted in: Duanesburg News Tagged: bid rigging, Buffalo Billions, Mew York Times, State University of New York at Albany, Todd R. Howe, Whiteman Osterman Hanna

Power and pay: Cuomo probe highlights ‘conflicts of interest’

May 8, 2016 by l

  “When SUNY Polytechnic Institute needed a lobbyist, it turned to Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Albany’s largest law firm. When Fuller Road Management Corp. — a non-profit run by SUNY Poly to award contracts — sought legal counsel, it turned to Whiteman Osterman & Hanna. Whiteman Osterman & Hanna was also the pick for COR … [Read more…]

Posted in: Whiteman Osterman and Hanna Tagged: bid rigging, Buffalo Billions, Todd R. Howe, Whiteman Osterman Hanna

Walls of Silence Go Up in Wake of Buffalo Billion Investigation

May 6, 2016 by l

  “As investigations continue to swirl around contracting for the Buffalo Billion economic development project, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is moving to block any communications between state agenices and a lobbying firm that has come under scrutiny in the probe, Whiteman, Osterman and Hanna. Meanwhile, documents obtained by Capital Tonight show the man Cuomo has … [Read more…]

Posted in: Whiteman Osterman and Hanna Tagged: bid rigging, Buffalo Billions, COR Development, Joe Percoco, Todd Howe, Whiteman Osterman Hanna

State officials barred from communicating with top federal lobbyist at Albany firm

May 2, 2016 by l

  “Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration has barred all state officials from communicating with the top federal lobbyist for Albany’s biggest law firm. Todd Howe, the president of a Washington, D.C., subsidiary of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, is involved in a federal investigation of Cuomo’s premier economic development programs. Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP has … [Read more…]

Posted in: Whiteman Osterman and Hanna Tagged: bid rigging, Todd R. Howe, Whiteman Osterman Hanna

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