Gov. Kathy Hochul has agreed to shell out $600 million of New York taxpayer dollars to the owners of the Buffalo Bills for a new football stadium — in addition to $250 million coming from the…
But the team’s owners are a pair of snowbirds who are largely able to avoid paying New York taxes by living in sunny, relatively tax-free Florida.and his wife, Kim Pegula, have voted from an address in Boca Raton since 2007, records obtained by The Post show.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul approved $600 million in state funding for the stadium and Erie County is contributing $250 million.The outrage over the Pegulas’ making Boca Raton their hometown while building a stadium for their team on the backs of highly taxed New Yorkers spans the political spectrum.
“This whole stadium deal is grotesque. It’s crazy. We have super rich out-of-state people who are getting massive New York subsidies that they don’t need,” said John Kaehny, executive director of the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany.APThe controversial Bills stadium subsidy led to a heated exchange among state Senate Democrats during a closed door caucus meeting in the Albany Capitol building Wednesday night.
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