U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor decided on Feb. 3 to rescind a temporary stay that had prevented a second fraud trial for four New York businessmen whose convictions were overturned by the high court in 2023.
The men were connected to the scandal-plagued “Buffalo Billion” development plan in upstate New York.
The plan, led at the time by then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, envisioned the construction of a solar panel factory, among other projects, and was aimed at attracting more than $8 billion in investments for Buffalo and the rest of western New York. Cuomo unveiled the plan in his 2012 State of the State address….