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Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, arrives at federal court for his corruption trial, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in New York.
Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, arrives at federal court for his corruption trial, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in New York.
Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP
The Kaloyeros trial has a long list of potential witnesses. Click through the slideshow to see some of them. Albany NanoTech officials, from left to right, Brenda Birken, CNSE Vice President for Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Paul Tolley, CNSE Vice President for Disruptive Technologies, Steve Janack, CNSE Vice President for Marketing and Communications, Alain Kaloyeros, CNSE Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, John Loonan, CNSE Vice President for Finance and Fiscal Management, Pradeep Haldar, CNSE Acting Vice President for Green Energy Programs, Richard Brilla, CNSE Vice President for Strategy, Alliances and Consortia, Michael Fancher, CNSE Vice President for Business Development and Economic Outreach, and Robert Geer, CNSE Vice President for Academic Affairs, pose at the Albany NanoTech campus in Albany, NY on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)
lessThe Kaloyeros trial has a long list of potential witnesses. Click through the slideshow to see some of them. Albany NanoTech officials, from left to right, Brenda Birken, CNSE Vice President for Policy and
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RPI President Shirley Ann Jackson walks with IBM's John Kelly lll through the supercomputing center at the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush. Grant money sought to help fund a $125 million supercomputer was not awarded. Times Union staff photo by Lori Van Buren Lori Van Buren/TIMES UNION
lessRPI President Shirley Ann Jackson walks with IBM's John Kelly lll through the supercomputing center at the Rensselaer Technology Park in North Greenbush. Grant money sought to help fund a $125 million
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Times Union Photo by Skip Dickstein -- Alain Kaloyeros speaks of a grant between the State of New York and IBM of $150 million dollars to establish a Center For Excellence at the State University at Albany's Center for Nanoelectronics at a gathering at the CESTM building in Albany, New York April 23, 2001. In the background are from left to right; Governor George Pataki, John Kelly III from IBM; and UAlbany Preident. Karen Hitchcock.
lessTimes Union Photo by Skip Dickstein -- Alain Kaloyeros speaks of a grant between the State of New York and IBM of $150 million dollars to establish a Center For Excellence at the State University at Albany's
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John Kelly III, senior vice president and director of IBM Research, addresses those gathered during an event at RPI on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in Troy, NY. The event was held for IBM and RPI to announce that IBM will provide a modified version of the IBM Watson system to the college for use by students and faculty. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)
lessJohn Kelly III, senior vice president and director of IBM Research, addresses those gathered during an event at RPI on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in Troy, NY. The event was held for IBM and RPI to announce that
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SEFCU President and CEO Michael Castellana (Joe Putrock/Special to the Times Union)
SEFCU President and CEO Michael Castellana (Joe Putrock/Special to the Times Union)
Photo: Joe Putrock/Special To The Times Union
Doug Grose at a Fort Schuyler Management Corporation board meeting on Monday, May 14, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)
Doug Grose at a Fort Schuyler Management Corporation board meeting on Monday, May 14, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)
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Doug Grose CEO of NY CREATES, at SUNY Poly on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)
Doug Grose CEO of NY CREATES, at SUNY Poly on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski/Times Union)
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Walter "Jerry" Barber Source: SUNY Poly
Walter "Jerry" Barber Source: SUNY Poly
Bob Blackman (Joe Putrock / Special to the Times Union)
Bob Blackman (Joe Putrock / Special to the Times Union)
Photo: Joe Putrock
From left, Alain Kaloyeros, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Mike Fancher, Vice President for Business Development and Economic Outreach, give Professor Yigal Komem, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Nili Shalev, Israel's economic minister to North America , a tour of Albany Nanotech, on June 12, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)
lessFrom left, Alain Kaloyeros, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Mike Fancher, Vice President for Business Development and Economic Outreach, give
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Mohawk Valley Edge President Steve DiMeo with Mohawk Valley EDGE employees at the Marcy Nanocenter site back in 2007. Six years later, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering agreed to build the site.
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Mohawk Valley Edge President Steve DiMeo with Mohawk Valley EDGE employees at the Marcy Nanocenter site back in 2007. Six years later, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and
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David Doyle, right, works at the War Room prior to the swearing-in ceremony.
David Doyle, right, works at the War Room prior to the swearing-in ceremony.
Photo: Michael P. Farrell
Dean Fuleihan, CNSE executive vice president fir strategic partnerships, speaks during the NanoCollege's Be the Change for Kid innovation awards on Thursday Sept. 26, 2013 in Albany, N.Y. CNSE awards school districts in the state with innovative awards for teaching math and sciences. (Michael P. Farrell/Times Union)
lessDean Fuleihan, CNSE executive vice president fir strategic partnerships, speaks during the NanoCollege's Be the Change for Kid innovation awards on Thursday Sept. 26, 2013 in Albany, N.Y. CNSE awards school
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Florence Nelson, a PhD candidate at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, right, talks with Chris Borst, Assistant Vice President for Module Engineering, center, and Dean Fuleihan, Executive Vice President for Strategic Partnerships, left, at a high resolution transmission electron microscope at the schoo lon Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011 in Albany, NY. Students will be hired as paid interns for a new Silicon Valley company starting operations at the Albany complex. (Philip Kamrass / Times Union)
lessFlorence Nelson, a PhD candidate at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, right, talks with Chris Borst, Assistant Vice President for Module Engineering, center, and Dean Fuleihan, Executive Vice
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From left, Professor Yigal Komem, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Nili Shalev, Israel's economic minister to North America, get a tour of Albany Nanotech from Mike Fancher, Vice President for Business Development and Economic Outreach, on June 12, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)
lessFrom left, Professor Yigal Komem, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and Nili Shalev, Israel's economic minister to North America, get a tour of Albany Nanotech from Mike Fancher, Vice President
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Robert Geer, the who as chief operating officer of SUNY Polytechnic Institute led the school's Utica campus, is stepping down Dec. 1 and will return to SUNY Poly's faculty. Source: Times Union archive.
Robert Geer, the who as chief operating officer of SUNY Polytechnic Institute led the school's Utica campus, is stepping down Dec. 1 and will return to SUNY Poly's faculty. Source: Times Union archive.
Brian Hannafin, vice president of corporate development at Danforth, at the Buffalo company's office at SUNY Poly's ZEN building. Source: Larry Rulison
Brian Hannafin, vice president of corporate development at Danforth, at the Buffalo company's office at SUNY Poly's ZEN building. Source: Larry Rulison
Andrew Kennedy, president and CEO of Center for Economic Growth presents the findings of a first-of-its-kind survey of the Capital Regions video game development cluster at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity Wednesday March 7, 2018 in Troy, NY. (John Carl D'Annibale/Times Union)
lessAndrew Kennedy, president and CEO of Center for Economic Growth presents the findings of a first-of-its-kind survey of the Capital Regions video game development cluster at the Tech Valley Center of Gravity
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Tom Louis is a former State Police senior investigator who retired in 2007. He is heading a police force being established as the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the State University of New York. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union)
lessTom Louis is a former State Police senior investigator who retired in 2007. He is heading a police force being established as the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the State University of New
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Thomas O'Brien
Thomas O'Brien
Photo: SUNY Poly
Tom Birdsey, CEO and President of EYP speaks at the ribbon cutting at The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering(CNSE) of the University at Albany and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott(EYP) Architecture and Engineering PC of Albany at the the opening of a $3.5 million initiative that includes the opening of an Alternative Energy Test Farm and the development of a joint educational and workforce training program to prepare the professional who will design and operat the high-tech buliding of the 21st century at a ceremony at CNSE in Albany, New York December 14, 2009.
lessTom Birdsey, CEO and President of EYP speaks at the ribbon cutting at The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering(CNSE) of the University at Albany and Einhorn Yaffee Prescott(EYP) Architecture and
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Alicia Dicks worked for National Grid before she took a job as president of Fort Schuyler Management Corp. She is currently CEO of The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties.
Alicia Dicks worked for National Grid before she took a job as president of Fort Schuyler Management Corp. She is currently CEO of The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties.
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Brenda Lubrano-Birken, General Counsel and Director of Legal Services for University at Albany, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, outside one of the clean rooms at the college in Albany, N.Y. on Monday, June 19, 2006. Times Union staff photo by Paul Buckowsk
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Brenda Lubrano-Birken, General Counsel and Director of Legal Services for University at Albany, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, outside one of the clean rooms at the college in Albany,
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Click through the slideshow to see the people indicted in the Buffalo Billion scandal.
Dr. Alain E. Kaloyeros, senior vice president and chief executive officer, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, resigned after been charged in September 2016 with federal wire fraud related to the alleged rigging of bids in favor of two upstate development firms. Kaloyeros was also charged on the state level with bid-rigging related to the development of a SUNY Poly dormitory.
Kaloyeros stands across from new construction on the other side of Washington Avenue Extension at the college on Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011 in Albany, NY. ( Philip Kamrass / Times Union)
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Click through the slideshow to see the people indicted in the Buffalo Billion scandal.
Dr. Alain E. Kaloyeros, senior vice president and chief executive officer, College of Nanoscale Science and
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Photo: Philip Kamrass
Joseph Percoco, a former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, arrives at federal court as the jury continues to deliberate in his corruption trial, Monday, March 5, 2018, in New York. Prosecutors say Percoco solicited over $300,000 in bribes from the businessmen who needed help from the state. A defense lawyer says Percoco never took a bribe. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Joseph Percoco, a former aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, arrives at federal court as the jury continues to deliberate in his corruption trial, Monday, March 5, 2018, in New York. Prosecutors say Percoco
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Photo: Mark Lennihan
Todd Howe was a long-time Cuomo friend who in September 2016 pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, including several related to his role of bagman in schemes involving the exchange of cash from developers in exchange for official favors from former top gubernatorial aide Joe Percoco.
who was supposed to be the government's star witness in the bribery trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. In the weeks before the Percoco trial, it came to light that Howe tried to improperly recover the cost of a fancy Manhattan hotel room from a credit card company after signing an agreement not to commit any more crimes. (Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union via AP, File)
lessTodd Howe was a long-time Cuomo friend who in September 2016 pleaded guilty to multiple felonies, including several related to his role of bagman in schemes involving the exchange of cash from developers in
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Steven Aiello, an executive of Syracuse-based COR Development, was a co-defendant in the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco. Aiello was found guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud.
Aiello faces additional charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, though prosecutors dropped a charge that Aiello allegedly made a false statement to federal agents. His trial is scheduled to begin June 18.
Here, Aiello arrives at federal court during the Percoco trial on Thursday, March 8, 2018, in New York.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
lessSteven Aiello, an executive of Syracuse-based COR Development, was a co-defendant in the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco. Aiello was found guilty of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud.
Aiello
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Louis Ciminelli, CEO of Buffalo-based development company LPCiminelli, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charges stem from an alleged bid-rigging scheme involving Buffalo Billion-funded development.
Times Union staff photo by Paul Buckowski --- Louis Ciminelli, chairman and CEO of LPCiminelli, takes part in a panel discussion following the rally held by the Unshackle Upstate Coalition, in Albany, N.Y. on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.
lessLouis Ciminelli, CEO of Buffalo-based development company LPCiminelli, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charges stem from an alleged bid-rigging scheme involving Buffalo Billion-funded
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Michael Laipple, an executive at Buffalo-based development company LPCiminelli, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, but the charges were dropped on June 1, 2018.
Laipple, right, and his attorney Herbert Greenman, leave U.S. District Court in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, after posting bond following an appearance in a corruption probe. The LPCiminelli executive was among eight people charged in a bribery and fraud case connected to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts to revitalize the upstate New York economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
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Michael Laipple, an executive at Buffalo-based development company LPCiminelli, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, but the charges were dropped on June 1, 2018. Laipple, right, and his
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Photo: Carolyn Thompson
Kevin Schuler, a former executive at the Buffalo development firm LPCiminelli, pleaded guilty on May 18, 2018, to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Kevin Schuler, right, leaves U.S. District Court in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, after posting bond following an appearance in a corruption probe. The LPCiminelli vice president was among eight people charged in a bribery and fraud case connected to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts to revitalize the upstate New York economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
lessKevin Schuler, a former executive at the Buffalo development firm LPCiminelli, pleaded guilty on May 18, 2018, to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Kevin Schuler, right, leaves U.S. District
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Peter Galbraith Kelly Jr., who is known as "Braith," a former executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, a Connecticut company pleaded guilty on May 11, 2018, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud: He admitted to defrauding CPV by misrepresenting that Percoco had obtained state ethics approval for his wife to work at CPV.
Kelly enters federal court, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, in New York. He is a defendant, along with Joseph Percoco, in a case of alleged bid-rigging and bribery that reached some of the highest levels of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
lessPeter Galbraith Kelly Jr., who is known as "Braith," a former executive with Competitive Power Ventures Holdings, a Connecticut company pleaded guilty on May 11, 2018, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud: He
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Joseph Gerardi, an executive at COR Development in Syracuse, was found not guilty on the charge of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
An aerial image showing the outline for COR Development's Syracuse Inner Harbor project. (COR Development)
lessJoseph Gerardi, an executive at COR Development in Syracuse, was found not guilty on the charge of conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
An aerial image showing the outline for COR Development's
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Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, arrives at federal court for his corruption trial, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in New York.
Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, arrives at federal court for his corruption trial, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in New York.
Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP
Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, arrives at federal court for his corruption trial, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Alain Kaloyeros, a former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute, arrives at federal court for his corruption trial, Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Photo: Mark Lennihan
Alain E. Kaloyeros, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, on Tuesday June 26, 2012 in Albany, NY.(Philip Kamrass / Times Union)
Alain E. Kaloyeros, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, on Tuesday June 26, 2012 in Albany, NY.(Philip Kamrass / Times Union)
Photo: Philip Kamrass
Kaloyeros' personality earned him a derogatory nickname, star witness says
NEW YORK -- Former SUNY Polytechnic Institute president Alain Kaloyeros' brusque personality earned him the nickname "AK-47" among executives of a Buffalo development firm where he allegedly steered a state contract, a former company official testified Tuesday.
Kevin Schuler, an ex-vice president at LPCiminelli revealed Kaloyeros' unflattering nickname -- a reference to an assault rifle that originated in the former Soviet Union -- during his third day on the witness stand in Kaloyeros' bid-rigging trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
"Just how difficult he could be," Schuler testified.
Schuler said Kaloyeros was so rude on the phone during contract negotiations with the company in 2014, Michael Laipple, an executive with the firm, told Schuler he wanted to drive to Albany to confront the founder of SUNY Poly.
Kaloyeros, 62, more commonly known as "Dr. K," is on trial before Judge Valerie Caproni accused of rigging the bids for more than $850 million in SUNY-Poly related state contracts that were part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Buffalo Billion initiative. Kaloyeros' co-defendants include Louis Ciminelli, 62, the president of LPCiminelli, Steve Aiello, 60, president of COR Development in Syracuse and Joseph Gerardi, 58, COR's general counsel.
All are charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Gerardi is also accused of lying to federal officers.
Schuler and Laipple (who has watched Schuler testify) were originally to be tried as well. Prosecutors dropped all charges against Laipple. Schuler pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges and is cooperating with the government.
On Tuesday, during cross-examination of Schuler, Kaloyeros defense attorney Reid Weingarten tried to show that Kaloyeros' at-times edgy relationships with Ciminelli's company illustrated there was no colluding to rig bids.
The lawyer showed emails in which future felon Todd Howe -- the ex-lobbyist who at the time was working as a consultant for both Kaloyeros' school and LPCiminelli -- did not include Kaloyeros in conversations with LPCiminelli executives.
After one tense moment in 2014 between Kaloyeros and LPCiminelli, Schuler emailed an associate saying, "We need to get Dr. K comfortable."
Weingarten, citing the exchange and posing the question skeptically, asked Schuler: "This is the person you're in a criminal conspiracy with?"
"Yes," Schuler answered.
Weingarten noted a March 4, 2014 exchange in which Kaloyeros complained about negotiations with LPCIminelli --and raised the issue of pulling out of a contract with them.
That January, the company had secured the bid for future Buffalo Billion-related contacts in Buffalo.
"I thought the deal was already cooked?" Weingarten asked Schuler, using a term for bid-rigging.
"We still needed to get a contract," Schuler replied. "We had the designation but no contract."
The contracts at issue were not project-specific but rather to become the preferred developer for future economic development projects in Syracuse and Buffalo.
Federal prosecutors have shown the jury emails that show Kaloyeros sent Louis Ciminelli a draft of an RFP (request for proposal) for the Buffalo project on Sept. 9, 2013, which was weeks before the RFP was published. It was also before the company even officially contacted the Fort Schuyler Management Corp., the non-profit board of SUNY Poly that approved the contacts, to express an interest.
Testimony has shown that Kaloyeros was at a dinner in Buffalo five days before with major local names -- including the president of the Buffalo Bills and publisher of the Buffalo News -- and Ciminelli.
And through Howe, the company was emailed a sneak preview of Cuomo's plan to develop the RiverBend site, former steel business site on the Buffalo River, into a major economic development project for two California companies. The area is now occupied by a SolarCity facility.
On Nov. 21, 2013, Cuomo announced plans to developing the area.
LPCiminelli officially submitted a bid for the Buffalo Billion RFP on Dec. 10, 2013. It won the bid in late January and later the right to redevelop the RiverBend site.
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