BUFFALO, N.Y. — Legal analysts agree it’s one of the most high-profile corruption trials in New York in decades.

"This is a trial to watch," legal analyst Steven Cohen said.

Over the coming days and weeks, observers should get a glimpse at the inside workings of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration, with some of his top aides expected to testify and one of his closest confidants implicated in the bribery scheme.

"I think that there's an attention to corruption in government now that makes this compelling for anybody that's interested in New York politics, how government works and in the community in which they live," Cohen said.

But the current court proceedings in New York City are only Part One. A second trial is scheduled for June and the defendants include three executives from the Western New York-based development firm LPCiminelli.

"Same judge and many of the same players. It's clear that this has been postured in such a way to cause some dominoes to tip to encourage people indicted for the June trail to flip," Cohen said.

He believes the current proceedings could motivate the June defendants to consider a plea bargain.

"Once it starts to come out how aggressive this prosecutions going to be, I wouldn't be surprised if the Ciminellis have a frank conversation with the U.S. Attorney," Cohen said.

Like Cohen, attorney John Elmore believes the testimony of lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's star witness, will have an impact on the next trial, but it could be to the benefit of those defendants.

"When somebody testifies a second time, they're almost never as effective as they are when they testify a first time," Elmore said.

He said if Howe is caught making any false statements, LPCiminelli's lawyers can use it as tool to attack the witness' credibility this summer.

"I think it's a defense attorney's dream to be able to have an informant testify at a trial first and find out all the skeletons and motivations and bad things about the informant right up front," he said.

Both attorneys agreed the prosecution will reference the so-called Buffalo Billion case as it makes its argument there was a pay-to-pay culture in New York State.