Dr. Nano's $43 Billion Empire Buffeted as Bharara Investigates
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Over three decades, a man who calls himself Dr. Nano built a $43 billion technology empire with New York taxpayer support, and now it may come tumbling down.
It’s a tale that brings together billionaire Tesla Motors Inc. founder Elon Musk, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Alain Kaloyeros, chief of the state’s nanotechnology university and New York’s highest-paid employee. The setting is the remnants of a former Republic Steel plant in Buffalo, and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are watching.