Alain Kaloyeros, the former President of the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute whom Governor Cuomo once referred to as a "genius," was sentenced to 42 months in Federal prison Dec. 11 for his role in the bid-rigging that awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts to three businessmen who were longtime campaign contributors to Mr. Cuomo.
Federal prosecutors emphasized during the trial last summer that there was no evidence that the Governor had done anything improper. But his former Deputy Director for State Operations, Anthony Kennedy, testified during the trial that because Mr. Cuomo had concerns that Mr. Kaloyeros was too independent, Todd Howe, a lobbyist who had previously worked first with his father, three-term Gov. Mario Cuomo, and later with Andrew when he was U.S. Housing Secretary during the Clinton Administration, was tapped to serve as his “eyes and ears.”
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