Sentences with phrase «rig bids for a project»

Another corruption trial scheduled to begin this year involves Alain Kaloyeros, who was president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute and is accused of rigging bids for projects part of the «Buffalo Billion,» one of Cuomo's top economic development programs.

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TSE: 2325 — Meeting Date: March 30, 2016 The directors of NJS are expected to face tough questions from their shareholders at the upcoming shareholder meeting over the arrest of six of their employees for suspicion of bid - rigging in regards to sewage related projects in Chiba - City.

One of the key players in Rochester's multi-million dollar Photonics institute, Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, was charged for extortion and bid - rigging by both the state attorney general's office and the U.S. attorney's office, raising questions about possible impact on the city's $ 600 million dollar project.

Next year, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Joe Percoco, will go on trial along with the former president of SUNY Nanotech and upstate developers, who are accused of being involved in a bribery and bid - rigging scheme for economic development projects.

The changes come as lawmakers have sought to push for returning power to DiNapoli's office for procurement oversight following the arrests of prominent upstate developers, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the ex-president of SUNY Polytechnic stemming from an alleged effort to rig state bids on lucrative economic development projects.

A former LPCiminelli executive has accepted a plea deal with the United States Attorney Southern District of New York and will serve as a cooperating witness in a trial this June connected to alleged bid - rigging for state - led development projects.

Several former Cuomo associates, including a former top aide, face federal corruption trials on charges of bribery and bid - rigging in connection with the contracts for some of the governor's signature economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

In the other, he allegedly worked as a consultant to Kaloyeros and rigged bids on nearly $ 1 billion in projects for his clients.

The final bill includes $ 208 million for the «strategic projects program,» which officials had previously said would help SUNY Poly «square up» a series of high - tech development projects that have sputtered after the school's former president, Alain Kaloyeros, was arrested in a bid - rigging scheme.

Federal prosecutors charged nine former associates of Cuomo, including a former top aide, with corruption, including bribery and bid - rigging, in connection with the procurement of contracts for some of the governor's largest economic development projects.

In May, the former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Alain Kaloyeros, who spearheaded many of the governor's economic development projects, will go on trial for charges that include bid - rigging of state contracts.

The defendants in that case include Alain Kaloyeros, former president and CEO of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, who's accused of rigging bids for a $ 750,000 contract tied to that project and $ 105 million in contracts for a film studio and manufacturing plant near Syracuse.

Bharara's office last year brought criminal charges of alleged bid - rigging hit for projects in Buffalo related to at the SolarCity and other contracts in Syracuse and Albany.

The quasi-public Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler, placed into ESD custodianship after federal and state prosecutors alleged that bidding processes for construction projects had been rigged by former SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros and others (all of whom maintain their innocence), have not entirely allayed concerns about transparency under their new leadership.

According to a recent filing in the federal case, prosecutors have sought records from more than a dozen individuals, companies and campaign accounts that were not named in a 2016 indictment that alleged key officials and developers were involved in rigging bids for some of the state's biggest projects.

The defense lawyers stressed that the bid - rigging allegations are directed at a request - for - proposals process in which Buffalo's LPCiminelli and Syracuse's Cor Development Corp. were selected as «preferred» developers for future projects in those two areas.

Cuomo's administration is currently under investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for possible bid rigging as part of the Buffalo Billion project in Western New York.

«I try not to be defensive and this is somewhat of an emotional situation for me,» Cuomo said when asked about the arrests of Percoco and eight other people on charges of bribery and bid rigging related to upstate economic development projects.

Joe Percoco and prominent upstate developers face charges of bid rigging and bribery for state economic development projects.

Company founder and former CEO Louis P. Ciminelli is under federal indictment, along with two of his executives, for alleged bid - rigging and bribery in a public corruption case that stemmed from the state's Buffalo Billion project at RiverBend.

The piece mentioned, among other corruption cases, the upcoming federal trial of former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros, who is alleged to have rigged bids for upstate construction projects through a SUNY - affiliated nonprofit, Fort Schuyler Management Corporation, several years ago.

From 2013 through 2015, Aiello, Gerardi and others are accused of conspiring to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corp. by rigging the bidding process for taxpayer - funded development projects.

It would certainly help: Even before bid - rigging case broke, SUNY Poly faced $ 475 million in debts owed to banks and bondholders for projects over the last decade.

Nine former associates of Governor Cuomo, including a former top aide, have been charged by federal prosecutors with corruption including bribery and bid rigging in connection with the procurement of contracts for some of the Governor's largest economic development projects, including the Buffalo Billion.

Those changes came after the public disclosure of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had been spent.

They were responding to the indictments of 10 state officials and developers who were charged by state and federal prosecutors with bid - rigging and bribery in connection with the awarding of state contracts for projects in Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany.

Meanwhile, the office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is examining possible bid - rigging in the contracting process for a dormitory project adjacent to the Albany campus of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, where Howe did extensive consulting work and was given an office for his use.

The U.S. Attorney claims COR bribed state officials to rig the bids for the lucrative contract on the project.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

Bharara whose spokesman had no comment Friday, is said to be looking into the contracts awarded for projects to build high - tech businesses in economically struggling Buffalo to see if any bid - rigging or other shenanigans took place, sources have said.

But in Sept. 2016, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office offered a different explanation, alleging in a criminal complaint that Nicolla and SUNY Poly president Alain Kaloyeros had rigged the bidding process for the prospective dorm project.

From 2013 through last year, Aiello, Gerardi and others are accused of conspiring to defraud Fort Schuyler Management Corp. by rigging the bidding process for taxpayer - funded development projects.

But these changes come only after they have found themselves at the center of state and federal investigations into potential bid - rigging and improper lobbying — and after much of the money allocated for major projects had already been spent.

No money was promised from the state for the project, which eventually grew stale, and has withered now that Kaloyeros is facing bid - rigging charges and resigned from his SUNY Poly presidency.

But Hyde said that during the same visit the CEO pulled his aside and asked him to tell him what «really happened» with the SUNY Poly scandal, in which Kaloyeros and the other defendants were accused of rigging bids on projects for large Cuomo donors.

The secretive nature of awarding contracts for major projects like the Buffalo Billion led to an alleged bid - rigging scheme by some of Governor Cuomo's associates.