Ex-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano to be resentenced in October, court document shows

Former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who is serving a 12-year sentence on corruption charges, will be resentenced in October after an appeals court partially overturned his conviction.

U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack set the resentencing for Oct. 9 — just days before the deadline for Mangano's counsel to submit an application to the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case.

It will be up to Azrack to determine whether the appeals court ruling that vacated two charges against Mangano, while affirming several others, merits a reduction in his sentence.

Mangano's lawyers had asked for the resentencing to be delayed until after the Supreme Court decided on whether to examine Mangano's case, but it will go forward five days before the Supreme Court deadline.

Mangano’s attorney Fred A. Rowley Jr. did not respond to a message seeking comment Thursday. A spokesman for Eastern District of New York prosecutors declined to comment.

Azrack said any supplemental sentencing submissions should be submitted to the court by Sept. 25.

Earlier this month, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted an extension to Mangano's lawyer to file a petition to the nation's highest court to Oct. 14.

Mangano, a Republican two-term county executive, began serving a 12-year prison sentence in 2022.

He was convicted in 2019 on multiple charges in connection with a scheme that prosecutors said involved Mangano 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 to Mangano.

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.

The appeals court ruled that Mangano, then an elected official for Nassau County, was not "an agent" of the town — a requirement of those statutes.

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," Rowley said in court papers.

Rowley has argued that Supreme Court precedent set in the cases of Joseph Percoco, the former aide to ex-Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and the former Governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell, whose corruption convictions were overturned by the court, should nullify the other corruption counts in which Mangano was convicted.

Mangano, 63, is incarcerated 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.

Mangano’s 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 Connecticut, before she was released to home confinement.

The Manganos first trial ended in a mistrial, while Oyster Bay Town Supervisor John Venditto was acquitted. Venditto, who died in 2020, later pleaded guilty to state corruption charges as part of a plea deal that did not include any jail time.

Singh testified at both trials that 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.

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.