Three executives from LPCiminelli will be back in court Monday morning for a preliminary hearing.
Prosecutors were seeking a two-week delay, but the trio's defense team requested the hearing as soon as possible, pointing out that the federal government has already had the case for a year.
Louis Ciminelli, Kevin Schuler and Michael Laipple are among nine defendants charged in connection with the public corruption probe of hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts and other official state actions. The bribery and wire fraud charges against the developers are punishable by up to 20 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
Ciminelli was released on $300,000 bond Thursday, Laipple on $50,000 and Schuler on his own recognizance.