Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos used the power of his office to line the pockets of his son, Adam Skelos, by extorting payments from companies that needed legislative help, a prosecutor told a federal jury Tuesday.
Southern District Assistant U.S. Attorney Tatiana Martins promised the jury in Judge Kimba Wood’s courtroom that the next few weeks of evidence would show Skelos was “strong-arming businesses” that depended on his support in Albany.
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