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Philadelphia, the new Chicago?

By Alison Jimenez

Here's another intriguing story that involves policitical connections and alleged WMBE fraud.  This time it takes place in Philadelphia with the current mayors brother Milton Street being indicted on mail fraud, wire fraud, filing false tax returns, etc.  The grand jury indictment make a pretty good read and here's a story from the local news. The indictment alleges a basic pass-through scheme with the mayor's brother owning the alleged front company and keeping about $33,000 a month and passing an airport maintenance contract back to a non-WMBE.  Reading the indictment, I really wonder what kind of review do companies need to go through to get certified in Phillie.  It also sounds like there weren't any onsite inspections of the work crews because according to the indictment, the front company used the non-WMBE employees...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on December 04, 2007 (boomark / email).