Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr

In October of 2018 PETER GALBRAITH KELLY JR., a former executive at Competitive Power Ventures (“CPV”), was sentenced to 14 months in prison for defrauding CPV by misrepresenting that the former Executive Deputy Secretary to the Governor, Joseph Percoco, had obtained state ethics approval for his wife to work at CPV. KELLY pled guilty on May 11, 2018, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud KELLY hired Percoco’s wife to a low-show job at CPV, and ran monthly payments to Percoco and his wife through a consultant who worked for CPV in order to disguise the source of the payments. KELLY also made sure that Percoco’s wife’s photograph and full name were not included in promotional materials for CPV, and he falsely told his superiors at CPV – on two separate occasions – that Percoco had obtained an ethics opinion from the Governor’s Office approving of Percoco’s wife’s employment with CPV, when in fact no such opinion existed. In addition to the prison term, KELLY, 55, of Canterbury, Connecticut, was sentenced to three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay $247,000 in restitution to CPV. On September 20, 2018, Judge Caproni sentenced Percoco to six years in prison. Aiello is scheduled to be sentenced on November 29, 2018. Gerardi is scheduled to be sentenced on December 6, 2018.