Feldstein reports on Cleveland corruption trial
The Chronicle's Dan Feldstein reports on the ongoing Cleveland corruption trial that involves former Brown Administration officials Monique McGilbra and Oliver Spellman:
Former city building services director Monique McGilbra has already pleaded guilty in Cleveland to taking bribes from major national firm Honeywell through consultant Nate Gray.
She also pleaded guilty to one count in Houston that included accepting gifts from the Keystone Group, a Houston-based firm that built the city's 911 emergency call center.
On the stand Wednesday as a government witness against Gray, she said she also improperly received gifts from officials of national engineering firm CDM (formerly Camp Dresser & McKee), Atlanta-based construction firm Thacker Operating Companies and Reliant Energy.
All had business with her department. City rules forbid employees from receiving gifts. McGilbra was in charge of enforcement for her department.
Feldstein's full story has more details.
The Houston angle seems to be, as Drudge might say, developing:
As the federal government presented its seventh day of evidence in the corruption trial of two Cleveland men and a New Orleans man, all signals clearly pointed to a continuing investigation in Houston.
"Is it over in Houston?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach asked FBI agent R. Michael Massie one day last week as he introduced dozens of wiretapped calls.
"No," Massie said.
Stay tuned. This could get very interesting.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/23/05 07:35 AM | Houston Miscellany | Print | Comments (5)
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