ALBANY, N.Y. — A former union president says his late boss expected “favors” from then New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno in return for investing union pension funds with the company that employed Bruno on the side.

Mark Congi, who was also Laborers Local 91’s assistant business agent until his 2002 indictment for racketeering, testified Monday at Bruno’s federal corruption trial. He said that business agent Michael Quarcini felt the more money they placed with Wright Investors Service, the more help they’d get from Bruno.

Congi, now in prison, says union interests included a proposed Indian casino and state construction contracts with union labor in the Niagara Falls area.

Union trustees initially placed $10 million with Wright, which paid Bruno commissions.