Jimmy Dimora, caught once again doing unseemly things with your money.
A story on the front page of today’s Plain Dealer provides new details about just how screwed up the county’s new headquarters project has become. As you may recall, the commissioners’ first mistake was hiring a construction manager, R.P. Carbone Co., whose chief was soon indicted for bribery in Lorain County.
But what we didn’t know was that Carbone also brought McTech Corp. on as a “small business” partner on the project. Small business, in this case, is bureaucratic code for a minority-owned company. Under the terms of the deal, McTech was supposed to do 30 percent of the work on a $10 million contract…
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2008.