UNITED STATES v. AIELLO

Nos. 18-2990-cr (L), 18-3710-cr, 18-3712-cr, 18-3715-cr, 18-3850-cr.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. STEVEN AIELLO, JOSEPH GERARDI, LOUIS CIMINELLI, ALAIN KALOYEROS, AKA DR. K., Defendants-Appellants, JOSEPH PERCOCO, PETER GALBRAITH KELLY, JR., MICHAEL LAIPPLE, KEVIN SCHULER, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Originally Decided: September 8, 2021.

Reversed and Remanded: May 11, 2023.

May 22, 2023.

Decided: September 23, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexandra A.E. Shapiro, Daniel J. O'Neill, Fabien M. Thayamballi, Shapiro Arato Bach LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi.

Timothy W. Hoover, Spencer L. Durland, Hoover & Durland LLP, Buffalo, NY; Herbert L. Greenman, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Louis Ciminelli.

Michael C. Miller, Reid H. Weingarten, Michael G. Scavelli, Bruce C. Bishop, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, New York, NY and Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant Alain Kaloyeros.

Matthew D. Podolsky, Derek Wikstrom, Won S. Shin, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for the United States.

Before: RAGGI, CHIN, and SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.


In 2018, a jury found defendants-appellants Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, Louis Ciminelli, and Alain Kaloyeros (collectively, the "Appellants") guilty of wire fraud and wire-fraud conspiracy in connection with a New York State initiative to use taxpayer dollars to develop the greater Buffalo region. The government obtained...

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