Federal authorities subpoenaed all of Dean Skelos’ state Senate colleagues from Long Island in April during their investigation into the former majority leader’s alleged political corruption, according to recently unsealed documents.
The senators’ subpoenas were among more than 150 federal authorities issued between April 2014 and May 2015 as they investigated Skelos’ (R-Rockville Centre) alleged use of his political power to secure favors for his son, Adam Skelos.
Investigators also interviewed more than 40 people connected with the case in that time frame.
Chris Schneider, a spokesman for state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Mineola), said Martins complied with the investigators’ subpoena and was not asked to testify or talk with them further.
The list of subpoenas was initially redacted, but prosecutors made it public on Oct. 1 as part of their response to filings from Skelos’ lawyers alleging that they leaked details of the investigation to the press before grand jury proceedings started.
The prosecutors also requested documents relating to Skelos from Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano’s office and New Hyde Park-based Glenwood Management Corp., a real estate development firm also involved in the corruption investigation against Skelos and his son as well as separate investigation involving former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Lower Manhattan).
Federal investigators also subpoenaed a financial institution for Adam Skelos’s paychecks from AbTech Industries — an environmental technology company.
Prosecutors allege that Dean Skelos used their political power to pressure Mangano and other county officials to issue a request for proposals built around a product that the Arizona-based company designed.
After AbTech won a contract from the county in July of 2013, it increased Adam Skelos’s monthly consulting payment from $4,000 a month to $10,000 a month.
Prosecutors also previously said Dean Skelos got a Glenwood executive to arrange a title insurance job for Adam Skelos that paid him $20,000.
The new documents reveal that investigators subpoenaed several other real estate developers whom Dean Skelos contacted about getting title insurance work for his son.
Both Dean and Adam Skelos face charges of soliciting bribes, extortion and services fraud. Their trial is set to begin in November.
Representatives from Mangano’s office did not return a request for comment.
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