ALBANY – Federal charges that Joseph Bruno took bribes from a businessman while serving as majority leader of the New York State Senate are “hogwash” and “ridiculous,” his attorney said Monday in opening statements of Bruno’s retrial.
There is “not one iota of evidence” to support prosecutors’ theory that Bruno collected $240,000 from 2004 to 2006 in exchange for doing businessman Jared Abbruzzese’s bidding at the Capital, attorney William Dreyer told the newly seated jury in a Northern District courtroom.
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