New Bribery Charges Filed Against Ex-Senator Bruno Joseph L. Bruno, a former majority leader in the State Senate, arriving at federal court in Albany on Thursday to face indictment. Joseph L. Bruno, a former majority leader of the State Senate, was charged on Thursday with taking bribes and kickbacks in a fraud scheme during his long tenure in office, setting up another battle with federal prosecutors who won a conviction against him in 2009. The indictment, unsealed in Federal District Court in Albany, comes nearly six months after a federal appeals court vacated Mr. Bruno's previous conviction because of a ruling in a separate case by the United States Supreme Court that undermined the government's legal claims against Mr. Bruno, a Republican from Rensselaer County. But the appeals court said Mr. Bruno could be retried on different charges. Richard S. Hartunian, the United States attorney for the Northern District of New York, charged Mr. Bruno with taking $440,000 in payments disguised as consulting fees from an Albany businessman. "Bruno did not perform legitimate consulting work commensurate with the money that he was paid," the indictment stated. Mr. Bruno is accused of taking the payments from the Albany businessman, identified in the previous trial as Jared E. Abbruzzese, even though he knew that he was not entitled to them, that he was receiving them for official acts and that he received the money in part because he could influence official action, according to the indictment. Mr. Bruno also directed public money to companies connected to Mr. Abbruzzese, including a $250,000 grant to Evident Technologies and a $2.5 million grant to the Sage Colleges, the indictment said. If convicted, Mr. Bruno would face up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 on each of two fraud counts. He pleaded not guilty before David R. Homer, a federal magistrate judge, and was released on his own recognizance. Outside the courthouse in Albany, Mr. Bruno's lawyer, E. Stewart Jones, disputed the prosecution's decision to bring new charges, saying his client never took a bribe or kickback. "Joe Bruno is 83 years of age," Mr. Jones said. He is a father, he is a grandfather, he is a great-grandfather, he is a private citizen, he is no longer in public life. They have spent seven years investigating, harassing and intimidating Joe and his supporters, and this is what we have to show for it at this point in time: more of the same. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, overturned Mr. Bruno's two convictions for honest-services fraud, citing a 2010 ruling from the Supreme Court that charges of honest-services fraud applied only to schemes involving kickbacks and bribes, not just to a failure to disclose a conflict of interest. But the appeals court said the prosecution's evidence "would permit a reasonable jury to find that Bruno performed virtually nonexistent consulting work for substantial payments" and "attempted to cover up" his dealings. Danny Hakim contributed reporting from Albany.