Dive Summary:
- Martin Valverde, a former Solid Waste Management superintendent, will be serving one year and six months in prison resulting from his participation to defraud the city of El Paso of thousands of dollars.
- He pleaded guilty in 2012 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and deprivation of honest services.
- Valderde and two other men conspired to accept bribes and kickbacks in exchange for sending city sanitation trucks to G.O.T. Supply for repair and servicing, then charged the city a greater amount than the actual cost of the parts.
From the article:
... Federal prosecutors allege Avalos, Torres and Valverde, a former solid waste superintendent for the city's Solid Waste Management department, now known as Environmental Services, conspired between Jan. 27, 2006 and Oct. 8, 2008 to devise a scheme to defraud the city by "means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises." ...
