New York Post

Percoco’s ‘sloppy’ wife got big $$

- Priscilla De Greogry and Bruce Golding

The wife of a top aide to Gov. Cuomo got paid three times as much as a coworker — and as much as their boss — by an energy company that was seeking a lucrative state contract at the time, according to testimony Friday at the former aide’s corruption trial.

But Lisa Percoco’s work for Competitiv­e Power Ventures was “sloppy” and “really sub-par,” and she only participat­ed in 19 three-hour presentati­ons between March 2014 and January 2016 as part of the CPV Educates corporate-outreach program, her former boss said.

Percoco — wife of ex-Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco (right) — also blew off two job fairs and would often join conference calls late “from her car or the pool,” ex -CPV spokeswoma­n Yanina Daigle told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

CPV paid Lisa $7,500 a month while a colleague got just $2,500, Daigle said.

Daigle also said Lisa’s $90,000-ayear pay was equal to the total of her own annual salary and bonus, and that she was eventually replaced by someone who was paid just $200 a day.

Feds allege that defendant and ex- CPV exec Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr. hired Lisa as a way to funnel nearly $290,000 in bribe money to her husband in a failed bid to sell electricit­y to the state Power Authority.

Daigle said Kelly warned CPV workers to never put Lisa’s name or photo on promotiona­l materials “because there might be some connection with who her husband was in New York, and we didn’t want anything to be interprete­d the wrong way.”

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