Forum Czata Toruń wp.pl
Poczuj sie jak u siebie w Toruniu
FAQ
Szukaj
Rejestracja
Profil
Użytkownicy
Grupy
Galerie
Zaloguj się, by sprawdzić wiadomości
Zaloguj
Forum Forum Czata Toruń wp.pl Strona Główna
->
Humor
Napisz odpowiedź
Użytkownik
Temat
Treść wiadomości
Emotikony
Więcej Ikon
Kolor:
Domyślny
Ciemnoczerwony
Czerwony
Pomarańćzowy
Brązowy
Żółty
Zielony
Oliwkowy
Błękitny
Niebieski
Ciemnoniebieski
Purpurowy
Fioletowy
Biały
Czarny
Rozmiar:
Minimalny
Mały
Normalny
Duży
Ogromny
Zamknij Tagi
Opcje
HTML:
TAK
BBCode
:
TAK
Uśmieszki:
TAK
Wyłącz HTML w tym poście
Wyłącz BBCode w tym poście
Wyłącz Uśmieszki w tym poście
Kod potwierdzający: *
Wszystkie czasy w strefie EET (Europa)
Skocz do:
Wybierz forum
Czat Toruń wp.pl
----------------
Forum
Czat Toruń
Gry
Humor
Hyde Park
Linux
Muzyka
p2p
Programy
Sport
Przegląd tematu
Autor
Wiadomość
fertieg50
Wysłany: Sob 2:10, 16 Paź 2010
Temat postu: In the new filing
A federal jury last year accused Mr. St. Pierre of giving Mr. Meffert and his wife, Linda Meffert, more than $850,000 in kickbacks, including cash, credit card charges, grass-cutting and even Carnival krewe membership dues. In return, Mr. Meffert allegedly abused his Nagin administration post to steer at least $4 million in no-bid city work to Mr. St. Pierre's companies.
They have claimed that the payments were for Mr. Meffert's help in developing business for Mr. St. Pierre in other cities. All three have pleaded innocent and are awaiting trial in January.
There's no record of any charges filed against officials in Lafayette or Baton Rouge, but investigators are clearly on the case.
But prosecutors now say Mr. Meffert was not the only public official Mr. St. Pierre showered with gifts and cash. In a recent filing in the New Orleans case, the government claims the Belle Chasse tech vendor also bribed officials in Baton Rouge and Lafayette to get public work.
That raises serious questions about contracting in those cities and about the type of incestuous relationships Mr. St. Pierre allegedly used to circumvent competitive contracting.
The federal prosecution of former New Orleans technology chief Greg Meffert accuses him of taking kickbacks from city contractor and long-time friend Mark St. Pierre.
Register now for free,
nfl sales
, or sign in with any of these services:
In the new filing, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says that Mr. St. Pierre hired the wife of the technology chief in Lafayette in 2005 under a contract with the city of New Orleans. The filing said he billed New Orleans taxpayers $100,000 for work she did, in invoices approved by Mr. Meffert. Around the same time, Lafayette hired a firm of Mr. St. Pierre, which eventually landed almost $200,000 in work there.
AIM Google OpenID Editorial page staff, The Times-Picayune
Follow Corrupt public contracts: An editorial Published: Thursday, October 07, 2010, 6:21 AM
Don't have an account?
Mr. Nagin said he did not know a city contractor was paying for his expenses. But the alleged scheme clearly undermined public trust in New Orleans' contracting. That's a cancer prosecutors need to attack -- here and anywhere else it spreads.
In Baton Rouge,
nfl sales
, Mr. St. Pierre gave gifts to the city's director of information systems while the city considered installing a crime-camera system in 2006. The alleged gifts included tickets to Saints games and "a 50th birthday party extravaganza." Mr. St. Pierre landed the Baton Rouge camera contract, worth as much as $800,
football uniforms
,000.
In New Orleans, the Meffert scandal eroded confidence in the Nagin administration's contracting. Among the credit card charges that Mr. Meffert allegedly billed to Mr. St. Pierre was a joint family vacation the Mefferts took with then-Mayor Nagin and his family to Hawaii in 2004 and first-class airfare for the mayor and his wife to travel to Jamaica in 2005.
fora.pl
- załóż własne forum dyskusyjne za darmo
Powered by
phpBB
© 2001, 2002 phpBB Group
Arthur Theme
Regulamin