Sentences with phrase «top economic developer»
Kenneth Adams, who was president of the Business Council at the time, has been appointed to serve as Cuomo's top economic developer.
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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.
Both are key developers on economic development projects and among Cuomo's top contributors.
At the same time, Cuomo said he had not been interviewed by law enforcement authorities, who moved last week to charge his former top aide Joe Percoco, SUNY Polytechnic chief Alain Kaloyeros and prominent upstate developers who have received state business for economic development programs.
Economic development spending has come under renewed scrutiny after the governor's former top aide was arrested last year and charged in a sweeping bid - rigging case that included prominent upstate developers who have received contracts under the state's job spending efforts.
Both also are key developers on economic development projects and among Cuomo's top contributors.
«The Bloomberg administration's top - down approach to economic development has disproportionately relied on ill - conceived mega-projects and re-zonings that produced wealth for developers but few living - wage jobs,» he said in the Staten Island speech.
Mr. David said the allegations are tied to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's probe of the «Buffalo Billion» economic development package in western New York, which saw major contracts go to top Cuomo donors like developer Louis Ciminelli.
Among them are Buffalo developer Louis Ciminelli, a top contributor to the governor's political campaigns, and Alain Kaloyeros, the flamboyant head of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute — both major players in the Buffalo Billion, one of the governor's central economic development initiatives.