ALBANY – Former New York Sate Senator and long-time minority leader Joseph Bruno will go back on trial in a revised case alleging that he took actual bribes or kickbacks.
Bruno is accused of accepting more than $400,000 from a businessman for helping with state grants. He was acquitted in 2009 of five fraud counts and convicted of two others, but the two convictions were overturned on appeal after the U.S. Supreme Court required actual proof of bribes or kickbacks in so-called honest services fraud cases. Bruno’s trial is slated to begin on May 5.
The Rensselaer County Republican led the Senate Majority for 14 years before stepping down in 2008.
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