Louis P. Ciminelli and other defendants convicted in pay-to-play scheme to steer them NY state contracts want US Supreme Court to overturn prosecutors' 'right to control' legal strategy, but that also could impact future bid-rigging cases, observers say.

Prosecutors target gains by sentenced upstate N.Y. bid-rig defendants

New York bid-rigging trial outcome exposed a big ethics loophole in state’s use of nonprofit entity to award contracts