Sentences with phrase «state awards lucrative»
Buffalo Billion Story: State awards lucrative contracts to politically connected companies to develop Buffalo Billion facilities.
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Mr. Bharara's office and F.B.I. agents in Buffalo had been examining whether state officials awarded lucrative projects to a few favored developers who had donated to the political campaigns of Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The state today awarded a lucrative gaming license to Thomas Wilmot, a Rochester developer who has spent at least 25 years trying to open a casino.
The job is largely seen as the top state appointment in the Syracuse area, coming with the power to award jobs and lucrative contracts.
Since last fall, when federal and state corruption charges were brought against former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros — who is alleged to have steered lucrative development contracts awarded by two opaque, SUNY - affiliated nonprofits to certain preferred companies — the university's use of nonprofit affiliates has come under increasing scrutiny.
Now Dr. Kaloyeros is charged with secretly manipulating the process through which the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, the university branch that he headed, awarded lucrative contracts to a select few developers in Buffalo, Albany and Syracuse, whose executives were also charged in the scheme.
Also among those charges were two executives with COR Development, a Fayetteville - based development company that has been awarded lucrative state contracts and is among the governor's top donors.
Among those charged were two executives with a Fayetteville - based development company that has been awarded lucrative state contracts and is among the governor's top donors.
Investigative Post's review of over 500 pages of records obtained from the development corporations under the state Freedom of Information Law found a lack of consistency in the way Fort Schuyler and Fuller Road advertised and awarded lucrative contracts to developers.