Alain Kaloyeros, the former president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison Tuesday after he was convicted earlier this year on federal charges of bid rigging in relation to state economic development projects.

Kaloyeros was accused by federal prosecutors of using a lobbyist to hand-pick developers for work on some of the state’s largest economic development projects in Syracuse and Buffalo, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “Buffalo Billion” initiative.