Syracuse State School

[citation needed] Following eight years of abandonment, In October 2006 the school was placed up for auction and sold for 2.2 million to Syracuse Resort Development, a group of investors on Long Island.

Syracuse Resort, an affiliate of SRD and a minority owner of the former developmental center, filed for bankruptcy in December 2010.

This company was once thought to be a portion of a Jewish trade school based out of California, But it turns out the center is actually owned by a company that Kazakhstan officials allege to be a shell corporation formed to hide tens of millions of dollars in stolen money according to local media syracuse.com.

[3] Weirdly enough the actions of the man who submitted the bid for Syracuse Center at an auction in April 2013 at the Onondaga County Courthouse, after submitting the winning bid of $2.1 million, the man ran from reporters, refusing to identify himself and even hiding his face with an iPad.

A McClatchy DC story in 2017 identified the mysterious man as New York developer Felix Sater, who it said was a two-time ex-con turned government informant and a one-time adviser to the then-President Donald Trump.