The state’s Office of Legislative Audits uncovered potential conflicts of interest among contracts made by a former Maryland Transit Administration employee, according to a report released Monday.
The report presented evidence that the unnamed MTA management employee had, through the particular wording of these contracts, gotten around state regulation of subcontractor procurement in order to pay a total of $4.5 million to a vendor with whom they had close relationships.
Two people working for this vendor were close relatives of the unnamed MTA employee, according to the report. The MTA manager also owns properties where two more vendor employees live and another property where the vendor’s CFO operates a business, auditors reported.
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