comment: The "Buffalo Billion" which funded this project is now widely understood to have been a pipeline from taxpayers directly to property developers. It was rife with sketchy no-bid contracts, the public commentary sessions were packed with literal shills, and the ultimate result was gentrification of urban neighborhoods without the promised return of job creation.
  Cuomo's top aide in jail. Four property developers in jail. The only reason Brown ended up clean out of all of this was because it was assumed by all involved that he was just the bag man. No serious white-collar criminal would ever trust Byron Brown not to accidentally fuck up their graft by allowing him to help.