The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition that would have stopped a retrial of the defendants in the "Buffalo Billion" corruption case.

The petition, filed on behalf of defendants Louis Ciminelli, a Buffalo developer, Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi, executives with Syracuse-based COR Development, and Alain Kaloyeros, former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, argued that a retrial defied the double jeopardy clause.

Ciminelli, Aiello, Girardi and Kaloyeros were convicted in 2018 on charges of corruption over upstate construction projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2023, the Supreme Court overturned their convictions and remanded the case to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Second Circuit then ordered a new trial on a new indictment, according to court documents.

The Buffalo Billion was first pitched by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2012, and offered a billion dollars in government money to projects in Buffalo, including the massive Tesla RiverBend gigafactory.