http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/nyregion/cuomo-former-aides-charges.html 2016-09-22 13:40:01 Corruption Charges Expected for Ex-Cuomo Aides The move would be the culmination of an inquiry into the administration’s attempts to lure jobs and businesses upstate by furnishing billions in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany. === Federal corruption charges were expected to be announced on Thursday against two former close aides to Gov. The charges against the former aides, Joseph Percoco and Todd R. Howe, would be the culmination of a long-running federal investigation into the Cuomo administration’s attempts to lure jobs and businesses to upstate New York’s limping economy by furnishing billions of dollars in state funds to developers from Buffalo to Albany. Mr. Howe is cooperating with the investigation, the people with knowledge of the matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the charges had not yet been announced. About half a dozen other people were also expected to be charged, with most of them to be taken into custody early Thursday morning, the people said. Federal investigators from the office of Mr. Percoco’s lawyer, Barry A. Bohrer, did not return a call seeking comment. Mr. Howe’s lawyer could not be reached for comment early Thursday. The sweeping corruption charges were expected to be announced at a news conference later on Thursday. The expected arrests of Mr. Percoco and others were first reported early Thursday by The Wall Street Journal. Until January, when he left the administration for a job at Madison Square Garden, Mr. Percoco was Mr. Cuomo’s As part of the investigation, investigators had looked into whether Mr. Percoco and his wife, Lisa Toscano-Percoco, Mr. Percoco’s financial disclosure forms, which he was required to file once a year while he worked for the governor’s office, reported that he and his wife had earned a total of $130,000 to $195,000 from two companies since 2012, one a major developer with several state-funded projects around Syracuse, the other an entity affiliated with an energy company that wanted to build a power plant in the Hudson Valley. Mr. Howe had worked for the elder Mr. Cuomo, and later for the younger Mr. Cuomo during his time as the secretary of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trading on When news of the investigation into the governor’s former aides broke in April, his office quickly cut ties to both men and ordered its own internal investigation. The results of that inquiry have not been released.