Feds: 2 NY businessmen scammed $15M from US, state agencies

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two western New York business owners have been indicted for scamming more than $15 million from several government agencies and a program designed to aid minority-owned businesses.

Prosecutors say during a four-year period ending in 2013 the two men illegally obtained government construction contracts for three projects in the Buffalo-Niagara region by defrauding state and federal agencies and the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program.