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ALBANY, N.Y. — Former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno’s longtime statehouse secretary says she handled paperwork and accounting for his sideline consulting firm without being paid by the business.

In testimony at Bruno’s federal corruption trial, Patricia Stackrow says she typed his financial disclosure forms, tallied his consulting receipts and expenses for taxes and wrote checks from the account of Bruno’s firm, Business Consultants, to his personal bank account. Her notes show he got more than $110,000 from fees in 1993.

Stackrow says Monday that she also did Bruno’s Christmas and personal shopping while on the state payroll.

Bruno is accused in eight fraud counts of using his state influence to enrich himself. He says that as “a citizen-legislator,” he had a right to conduct business.

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