Percocco vs Cuomo - Is This a Government Position?

Joseph Percocco is a former aide to disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo. While working as Cuomo's reelection campaign manager, he received $35,000 from a developer and used it to pressure state agency for development funding. This just seems like a gigantic potential loophole to the political corruption fraud statutes,. Let's call this the Steve Bannon rule.