Ex-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's corruption resentencing, scheduled for April 15, delayed, court papers show

A federal judge has delayed the resentencing of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, who saw two counts of his 2019 federal corruption conviction overturned by an appeals court last month.

Mangano, 62, currently serving a 12-year sentence, was scheduled to be resentenced on April 15. The resentencing was prompted by a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District, which reversed Mangano's felony conviction on two counts — federal programs bribery and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery.

U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack, who presided over Mangano's two trials, said in an order Monday she would adjourn the resentencing while the defense seeks a hearing and further review from the appeals court.

Azrack did not set a new date for resentencing but ordered the parties to submit a progress report to the court by April 15.

"Counsel for the defendant has indicated that they will seek further review before the Second Circuit, and the Second Circuit has not yet issued its mandate for defendant's appeal," Azrack wrote. "As such, the resentencing is ADJOURNED sine die."

A spokesman for federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York declined to comment on the delay on Monday.

In a letter last week seeking a delay for the resentencing, Mangano appeals attorney Morris J. Fodeman said he and the prosecution each requested and were granted extensions from the appeals court to file petitions seeking a rehearing of the case and an expanded review.

"While we understand that the government is awaiting direction from the Solicitor General as to whether it will actually seek en banc review, Mr. Mangano most certainly will seek rehearing," Fodeman wrote.

Fodeman also said he would need to meet with Mangano, who is imprisoned in FMC Devens, a federal medical center with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Ayer, Massachusetts, and that would be impractical given he has a "long-planned family vacation scheduled" in March.

Mangano's attorney noted the once powerful Republican politician from Bethpage "has extremely limited financial resources" after "a decade-long legal fight and over two years in custody."

Mangano is scheduled to be released in 2031.

After his first trial ended in a mistrial, a jury convicted Mangano in 2019 of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, federal program bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice for directing officials in the Town of Oyster Bay to indirectly back around $20 million in loans for restaurateur and town concessionaire Harendra Singh.

His wife Linda Mangano was convicted of two counts of lying to the FBI, conspiring to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice. The court upheld her conviction.

In exchange for the help with the loans, prosecutors said Singh plied the Manganos with bribes, including a $450,000 no-show job for Linda Mangano. She served about four months of a 15-month sentence in a federal prison camp in Connecticut.

Fodeman, in his letter, also took issue with the Probation Department, which issues a report for the judge to consider on all sentencings, authoring a new sentencing recommendation, which was not disclosed publicly.

"On March 10, 2025, the Probation Department issued a supplemental sentencing recommendation, without any prior notice to, or input from, the defense," Fodeman wrote. "Notably, despite the fact that two of the charges against Mr. Mangano have now been reversed, the Probation Department’s recommendation has somehow increased since its last recommendation in 2022. In any event, we would request a meaningful amount of time to provide mitigating information to the Probation Department, and for the Probation Department to consider that information and respond."

Reports from probation are not public, therefore their sentencing recommendations are only known when an officer of the court provides the information in a filing or verbally in open court.

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.