No-$how icing on Skelos cake
Adam Skelos was earning well over six figures a year when his Senate majority leader dad, Dean Skelos, was allegedly shaking down businesses to get his son do-nothing jobs, it emerged in Manhattan federal court on Friday.
Adam (right) earned $272,813 in 2012, up from $232,692 in 2011 and $145,513 in 2010, prosecutors said at the Skeloses’ corruption retrial Friday.
During that time, the top Long Island Republican was also pressuring executives of companies he had legislative sway over to help his “struggling” son, witnesses have said.
“My view all along was that Adam was struggling and he needed work,” Charlie Dorego of Glenwood Management told the jury last week.
Dean said Adam “was having problems . . . and needed help,” Dorego said.
The real-estate executive hooked Adam up with a $10,000-a-month gig at an environmental company and threw him $20,000 for title-insurance work he never did, according to the government. Adam also got a cushy gig at a reinsurance company, the feds have said. By 2013, Adam’s income had ballooned to $441,099, according to the feds.
The Skeloses are on trial for using Dean’s position to strong-arm companies doing business with the state.
The feds will show the jury evidence of Dean’s income Monday — over objections by the defense that earnings “of over $500,000” might prejudice the jury.