Physicist Takes No-Jail Deal To End 'Buffalo Billion' Saga

By Pete Brush ( December 22, 2025, 12:45 PM EST) -- A New York physicist who over a decade ago allegedly defrauded the Empire State's "Buffalo Billion" development initiative while serving as president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute copped to a conspiracy count Monday in another step toward closing a case that wound its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court....

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