December 3, 2018

Prison for NY Developer in Buffalo Billion Bid Rigging Case

A Buffalo developer has been sentenced to 28 months in prison and ordered to pay a $500,000 fine in a bid-rigging scheme connected to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's "Buffalo Billion" economic redevelopment program.

Louis Ciminelli (sih'-mih-NEHL'-ee) was sentenced Monday in federal court for a pay-to-play conspiracy in which his firm won a development job worth a half billion dollars.

Ciminelli and three others were convicted over the summer. Prosecutors say the scheme involved state-funded contracts worth more than $850 million.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2018-12-03/prison-for-ny-developer-in-buffalo-billion-bid-rigging-case