Percoco’s ‘sloppy’ wife got big $$
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.”