Nov 16, 2009 1:08 pm US/Eastern
Bruno's Senate Secretary Handled Sideline Business
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Former NY Senate Leader Joseph Bruno (File Image)
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Former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno's longtime statehouse secretary says she handled paperwork and accounting for his sideline consulting firm without being paid by the business.
In testimony at Bruno's federal corruption trial, Patricia Stackrow says she typed his financial disclosure forms, tallied his consulting receipts and expenses for taxes and wrote checks from the account of Bruno's firm, Business Consultants, to his personal bank account. Her notes show he got more than $110,000 from fees in 1993.
Stackrow says Monday that she also did Bruno's Christmas and personal shopping while on the state payroll.
Bruno is accused in eight fraud counts of using his state influence to enrich himself. He says that as "a citizen-legislator," he had a right to conduct business.
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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