Ex-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has until mid-October to petition Supreme Court to review his conviction, court documents show

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano has until the fall to file a petition to the nation’s highest court to review his conviction on federal corruption charges, which was partially overturned by an appeals court.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted the request earlier this month from Mangano’s lawyer to extend the deadline for filing the petition by 60 days, from Aug. 14 to October 13.

Mangano is serving a 12-year prison sentence on corruption charges.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in February to reverse Mangano’s 2019 felony conviction on two bribery counts — federal programs bribery and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery for a Town of Oyster Bay loan scheme — concluding that Mangano, then an elected official for Nassau County, was not "an agent" of the town — a requirement of the statute.

The appeals court, however, affirmed Mangano’s convictions on counts of honest services fraud and other charges "despite an identical flaw in the government’s theory," wrote Mangano’s attorney Fred A. Rowley Jr.

"In upholding Mangano’s honest services fraud conviction based upon his alleged efforts to influence actions taken by a government he undisputedly did not serve, and to which he undisputedly owed no fiduciary duty, the Second Circuit contravened not one, but two of this Court’s binding precedents" in the cases against Joseph Percoco, the former aide to ex-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and the former Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell, whose corruption convictions were later vacated by the Supreme Court, Rowley wrote.

A spokesman for the Eastern District of New York prosecutors, who tried Mangano, declined a request for comment Tuesday.

Mangano, 63, is at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts and is scheduled to be released on Dec. 4, 2031, according to the Bureau of Prisons’ inmate locator. He began serving his sentence in 2022.

Mangano’s attorneys have also asked for the court to delay resentencing Mangano based on the appeals court vacating his conviction on two charges until the Supreme Court rules on Mangano's case. A new sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.

Mangano was convicted at a 2019 retrial of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, federal program bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice for his role in directing Oyster Bay Town officials to indirectly back what amounted to $20 million in loans for restaurateur and town concessionaire Harendra Singh, who was also a family friend. A lawyer for the town had said the transaction was illegal.

His wife, Linda Mangano, was convicted of lying to the FBI, conspiring to commit obstruction of justice and obstruction of justice.

Linda Mangano served about five months of a 15-month sentence in a federal prison camp in Danbury, Connecticut, before she was released to home confinement.

The first trial of Mangano and his wife ended in a mistrial, while Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto was acquitted. Venditto later pleaded guilty to state corruption charges as part of a plea deal that spared him jail time. He died in 2020.

Singh testified he bribed Edward Mangano with a $454,000 "no-show" job for his wife, free meals and vacations, two luxury chairs, hardwood flooring for the couple’s bedroom and a $7,300 wristwatch for one of their sons.

Lawyers for the Manganos argued at their trials that the bribes were only gifts from Singh, their longtime family friend.

In 2023, Singh was sentenced to four years in prison for the myriad financial crimes he admitted committing, including tax fraud, bribery and check kiting. He’s imprisoned at FCI Otisville, a medium security federal prison in upstate Orange County, and is slated to be released on June 1, 2027, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

By Nicole Fuller

nicole.fuller@newsday.com@NicoleFuller

Nicole Fuller is Newsday's senior criminal justice reporter. She began working at Newsday in 2012 and previously covered local government.