Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., Bribery Scheme, New York 2018

State: New York
Category: Public Corruption
Source: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/former-energy-company-executive-sentenced-connection-bribery-scheme-former-executive" style="color:#cc0000;" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">DOJ Press Release ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â‚¬Â Ã¢â‚¬â€

A former executive at Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving the former Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor of New York.

Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., 55, of Canterbury, Connecticut, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni for defrauding CPV by misrepresenting that the former Executive Deputy Secretary, Joseph Percoco, had obtained state ethics approval for his wife to work at CPV.

According to the evidence introduced at trial, Kelly hired Percoco’s wife to a low-show job at CPV and ran monthly payments to Percoco and his wife through a consultant who worked for CPV in order to disguise the source of the payments.

Kelly also made sure that Percoco’s wife’s photograph and full name were not included in promotional materials for CPV, and he falsely told his superiors at CPV – on two separate occasions – 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.

Kelly pleaded guilty on May 11, 2018, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In addition to the prison term, Kelly 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.

U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman praised the work of the Buffalo Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, which jointly conducted this investigation with special agents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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