A high-ranking executive at a New York energy company has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving a top aide to the Governor of New York.
Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., 55, of Canterbury, Connecticut, was sentenced on September 20, 2018 by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni for his role in the bribery scheme.
Kelly Jr. pleaded guilty on May 11, 2018 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was found to have hired the wife of former Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor, Joseph Percoco, to a low-show job at Competitive Power Ventures (‘CPV’), and made monthly payments to Percoco and his wife through a consultant who worked for CPV to disguise the source of the payments.
According to prosecutors, Kelly Jr. also made sure that Percoco’s wife’s photograph and full name were not included in promotional materials for CPV, and falsely told his superiors at CPV that Percoco had obtained an ethics opinion from the Governor’s Office approving of Percoco’s wife’s employment with CPV, when in fact no such opinion existed.
In addition to the prison term, Kelly Jr. was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $247,000 in restitution to CPV.
This case is being prosecuted by the Office’s Public Corruption Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Janis Echenberg, Robert Boone, David Zhou, and Matthew Podolsky are in charge of the prosecution.
The investigation was jointly conducted by the Buffalo Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation.
Key Facts
- State: New York
- Category: Public Corruption
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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