Joseph Bruno
On the record
Bruno consults for Wright Investors' Service + Loyalty Holdings (CT investment firms) while serving as NY Senate Majority Leader — collecting $3.2M in 'consulting/referral fees' from firms that had NY state business; 2009 federal honest-services-fraud conviction; SCOTUS Skilling decision vacated 2011; retried 2014 — acquitted. Fees themselves remain undisputed public record involving construction + multifamily-real-estate clients. Convicted 2009 on honest-services fraud (vacated 2014)
SEVERITY · FELONY · CRIMES · fraud
Background
Between 1995 and 2008, Joseph Bruno held the Senate Majority Leader · Senate seat in New York, a 13-year tenure. Earliest occupant of this seat in Officium's records; succeeded by Dean Skelos. Press-relevant: Convicted 2009 on honest-services fraud (vacated 2014). Same-year political environment (1995): Governor George Pataki; Attorney General Dennis Vacco; Secretary of State Alexander Treadwell.
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Others who held this office in New York
- Andrea Stewart-Cousins (2019-present)
- John Flanagan (2015-2018)
- Dean Skelos (2008-2015)