Mrs. Percoco’s ‘sketchy’ $22G
The wife of former top Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco was paid more than $22,500 for less than half a week’s worth of work at an alleged “low-show” job, according to testimony at her husband’s corruption trial Wednesday.
Former co-worker Kerri Hamm said she and Lisa Percoco spent no more than 17 hours preparing a corporate-outreach program for Competitive Power Ventures from September through early December 2013.
The work, which they did at the Percocos’ Westchester house, was Lisa Percoco’soco’s sole assignmentment for CPV at the time, said Hamm,mm, whose father is the head of the North America’sca’s Building Trades ades Unions labor feder-federation.
Hamm initiallyally told jurors that she and Lisa Percocoo spent between 10 and 12 hours on the project for the “CPV Educates” program for schoolkids, but later amended that to between 14 and 17 hours.
Previous testimony in Manhattan federal court revealed that Lisa Percoco (pictured below with husband Joseph) was paid $7,500 a month by the power company.
Former CPV spokeswoman Yanina Daigle, who was Lisa’s boss, last week said that Lisa’s $90,000 annual income was three times what Hamm earned and equivalent to Daigle’s own salary and bonus, combined. Former CPV
exec Pe- ter Galbraith Kelly Jr., one of three co-defendants on trial with Joseph Percoco, is accused of funneling to him nearly $280,000 in bribes through Lisa Percoco in a failed bid to score a contract to sell electricity to the state Power Authority.
Also Wednesday, Daigle identified a copy of an electricity puzzle for kids that she said Lisa produced in February 2016.
Asked if Lisa did any other work for CPV that month, Daigle answered, “Aside from preparing her invoice, no.”
The defense maintains that Kelly arranged Lisa’s job as a no-strings-atattached personal favor for her husband after they bonded during a fishing trip out of Montauk, LI.