Nov 6, 2009 2:37 pm US/Eastern
Documents: Bruno Solicited Pataki For Employer
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NY Senate Leader Joseph Bruno (File Image)
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Documents presented at the corruption trial of the former New York Senate majority leader show he approached then-Gov. George Pataki and a state college on behalf of a technology company that employed him part time.
Letters between then-Sen. Joseph Bruno and Sage Alerting Systems officials show Bruno claiming he helped sell $1 million in computer equipment in 1993, some to Hudson Valley Community College in his political stronghold, Rensselaer County.
Bruno was paid $44,000 in commissions, and the sales threshold let him exercise stock options.
Other documents put in evidence Friday show Bruno, under Senate letterhead, proposing that Pataki meet with IBM for a possible school computer partnership. Bruno's employer sold IBM computers and requested the meeting.
Bruno, who was Senate majority leader from 1995 until retiring last year, faces eight fraud charges. He's accused of using his state influence to enrich himself.
After his retirement, Bruno became chief executive officer of CMA Consulting Services. CMA, an information technology consulting business based in the Albany County suburb of Latham, is headed by Kay McCabe Stafford, the widow of Republican Sen. Ronald Stafford.
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