Steve Pigeon pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling an illegal donation to the governor’s campaign.
By JORDAN LAIRD
October 11, 2018
On Tuesday, Steve Pigeon, the one-time Democratic politician and long-time controversial New York power broker, pleaded guilty to channeling an illegal foreign donation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2014 campaign. Although the U.S. Department of Justice noted that the Cuomo campaign rejected the donation when it realized it came from a Canadian, Cuomo’s Republican opponent, Marc Molinaro, eagerly decried the “foreign money laundering scheme.”
This is only the latest in a string of recent legal proceedings against Cuomo former associates and allies. In late September, the governor’s former close aide Joseph Percoco, who Cuomo had likened to a brother, was sentenced to six years in prison for taking bribes.
