Stories Related to Ex-chatham Area Transit Executive Director Reese Admits In Court To Kickback Scheme, Sentencing To Come Later

Former Chatham Area Transit Authority executive director Chadwick Reese on Wednesday admitted he participated with a fellow CAT official in a scheme to receive kick-back payments from a service provider who benefited from a rigged CAT contract to clean buses. Reese told U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. that co-defendant Joel Morris, former CAT maintenance director, approached him with a plan to have a specific vendor clean the bus fleet. During the meeting, Morris told him he had “figured out a way” to have the buses cleaned by a specific vendor, adding that under the arrangement a “gentleman would take care of us.” Reese admitted he was “aware of the situation” to have a contract let in return for which he and Morris would receive money, The plea to a single mail-fraud count by Reese, 45, before Moore was entered under an agreement with federal prosecutors which they dismissed the remaining eight counts of the indictment against Reese. First Assistant U.S.

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