Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano to be resentenced July 22

Ex-Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano will be resentenced in July after a federal appeals court last year partially struck down his conviction for corruptly greasing the wheels to get his friend $20 million in indirect loan guarantees from the Town of Oyster Bay in exchange for high-priced bribes.

Mangano, who is serving a 12-year sentence for using his clout as county executive to pressure the Town of Oyster Bay to indirectly back the loans, will appear via Zoom from his Massachusetts federal prison for the July 22 resentencing, U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack said in an order Thursday.

Mangano is expected to seek a sentence reduction after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District overturned two bribery charges he was convicted of, ruling that Mangano, as county executive, was not an "agent" of Oyster Bay Town, a required element for those charges. The court affirmed the remaining counts.

Prosecutors have said they plan to push for Mangano to be resentenced to the same 12-year term.

Mangano’s attorney Moe Fodeman didn’t respond to a message seeking comment. John Marzulli, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District, declined to comment. 

Mangano, a Republican who served two terms as county executive of one of New York State’s most populous suburban counties, has been incarcerated since 2022 at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts, where he has recently been working as a head chef and raising a future service dog. 

Azrack has postponed Mangano’s resentencing on several occasions, including earlier this year to allow more time for a defense review of the federal probation department’s resentencing report, Newsday previously reported. The judge also approved previously Mangano’s request to appear remotely for his resentencing, after his lawyers argued that Mangano could potentially be forced to spend months in the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a federal jail, if he had to be transported to New York to attend his court hearing.

Mangano was convicted on March 8, 2019, of conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, federal programs bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice for the loan scheme.

The former county executive took several bribes from family friend, restaurant mogul and Town of Oyster Bay concessionaire Harendra Singh in exchange for helping him to secure the indirect loan guarantees, including a $454,000 "no-show" job for his wife, Linda Mangano, free meals and vacations, two luxury chairs, hardwood flooring for the couple's bedroom and a $7,300 wristwatch for one of their sons, prosecutors have said.

Linda Mangano served about 5 months of a 15-month sentence for lying to the FBI and conspiring to commit obstruction of justice.

Singh, who testified he bribed Mangano as the key witness against the former politician and his wife, was released from an upstate federal prison in February after serving roughly 15 months of a 4-year sentence.

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.