Harendra Singh, key figure in ex-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano's corruption trials, released from prison, documents show

Harendra Singh, the Long Island restaurateur who testified that he bribed then-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano as the key witness against the former politician and his wife, Linda, has been released from federal prison.

Singh, 67, was released Wednesday to the supervision of the Residential Reentry Management Office on Varick Street in Manhattan, online records show.

Singh, a former restaurant mogul and Town of Oyster Bay concessionaire from Laurel Hollow, was sentenced in 2023 to 4 years in prison for a slew of financial crimes. He began serving his sentence in November 2024.

Singh, who was imprisoned in upstate Federal Correctional Institution Otisville, had sought a sentence reduction in court papers filed under seal in May.

U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack called the sentence reduction motion "moot" on Wednesday, noting in a court filing that the "defendant has been moved to a Residential Reentry Management facility."

His attorney, Zachary Scott Segal, declined to comment Monday.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, which prosecuted Singh, also declined to comment.

As part of a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors, Singh pleaded guilty in 2016 to charges including conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, bribery and honest services wire fraud related to the Town of Oyster Bay loan scheme and an almost $1 million fraudulent claim to FEMA of damage to a Queens catering hall that he owned during Superstorm Sandy.

Singh testified against the Manganos at two trials — the first, which ended in a hung jury in 2018, and the second that resulted in their 2019 convictions on corruption charges.

At Singh’s sentencing, Azrack called Singh a "one-man economic crime wave" who "exposed the corrupt culture that was business as usual in Nassau County."

But she also credited Singh for what she called his "extraordinary" cooperation with federal officials, testifying against the Manganos, his close friends of more than two decades, over 17 days at two trials.

Singh also got 2 years of probation and was ordered to pay $22.8 million in restitution.

Edward Mangano is currently serving a 12-year sentence. He was set to be resentenced after a federal appeals court in February 2025 reversed part of Mangano's corruption conviction.

The court threw out his conviction on two counts — federal programs bribery and conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery — agreeing with Mangano's contention that he was not an Oyster Bay Town official. The appeals court called the evidence "insufficient."

Mangano’s resentencing on the remainder of the conviction was rescheduled multiple times, but Azrack postponed it indefinitely in December.

Mangano is currently housed at Federal Medical Center Devens, in Massachusetts, where he has been working as a chef and raising a future service dog. He is scheduled to be released in 2031.

In 2019, Mangano was convicted of multiple federal charges for pressuring the Town of Oyster Bay to indirectly back $20 million worth of loans for Singh, who sold concessions at town beaches.

The jury found Singh bribed Mangano with a $454,000 "no-show" job for his wife, free meals and vacations, two luxury chairs, hardwood flooring for the couple’s bedroom at their Bethpage home and a $7,300 wristwatch for one of their sons.

Linda Mangano was sentenced to 15 months in prison but was released to home confinement after about 5 months from a federal prison in Connecticut.

Newsday's Grant Parpan contributed to this story.