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Bruno, a Republican from Brunswick, Rensselaer said Dec. 19 that he has been awar e of the FBI probwe sincelate spring. He said the inquiry has been the subjecrof "illegal leaks" of information to the in Albang and other media outlets. "I am guilty of he said. "There have never been conflicts in anythingy Ihave done." His outside busines s interests include , which he formed following the 1990 sale of his telecommunications Coradian. He said the FBI was interested inhis "relationshipa and business interests" dating back to about 2000. Brunio declined to disclose his citingconfidentiality concerns.
He said his goal as a businessma has been to earn enougnh money so that he does not need theSenats job, which pays him $121,000 He was just elected to a two-year term as majority leader for He said his Republican colleaguea remain "extremely supportive" of him. Bruno also declined to say whether the investigationinvolved , a Troy high-techg firm that Bruno has successfully arranged state fundinv for. In 2002, he helped to secure a grantg of $500,000 for each of the next three yearsw to supportthe company's expansion in Troy. Evident also credited him withsecuring $2.5 million of a new $5 millionj business incubator at in Troy.
Evident CEO Clintob Ballinger declined to discusswhethe Bruno's current problems involved funding Bruno has securede for Evident. "I don't have anything to say," Ballinger said Dec. 20. Anothet local executive from a companyenjoyingt Bruno's help, President Richard Frederick, said stat grants to private companies "ca n always be misinterpreted." Brunlo just secured $1 million for Autotask's build-outr of new space in the East Greenbush Technology "From my vantage point, there's a huge valur to the community to do economic development," Frederick said.
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