Former NY Senate leader Joseph Bruno indicted
1/23/2009 6:36:00 PM
Associated Press/AP Online
By MICHAEL HILL ALBANY, N.Y. - Joseph Bruno, the former majority leader of the New York Senate and for a time the most powerful Republican in state politics, was indicted Friday on federal corruption charges.
Bruno, who retired from the Legislature in July after more than a dozen years leading the Senate, is accused of using his position to steer contracts and grants to businesses that paid him a total of $3.2 million in consulting fees or other compensation from 1993 through 2006, and then covering his tracks.
