Former NY Senate leader Joseph Bruno gets two years for fraud [View All]

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Source: Syracuse Post Standard

ALBANY, N.Y. — Joseph Bruno, once one of the most powerful political figures in New York, has been sentenced to two years in jail on two federal fraud counts.

The 81-year-old Bruno was the Republican leader of the state Senate for 13 years, controlling that chamber’s legislation and billions of dollars in spending.

He was convicted last year of using his office to help a businessman who paid him as a consultant and in a horse venture, violations of the federal “honest services” law.


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