A report issued today by the Office of the Inspector General adds new details to an alleged six-year-long spree of fraud and malfeasance by a local vehicle repair shop and the former chief of Baltimore’s Fleet Management Division.

Last March, The Brew broke the story that Holabird Fleet Service, owner Lawrence F. Ward and general manager Daniel E. Foy stood accused of inflating the cost of labor and parts on a fleet service contract with the city that was terminated on February 3, 2020.

Five days earlier, Robert W. Gibson had been escorted out of the George F. Winfield Fleet Maintenance Facility on East Biddle Street, fingered by the Inspector General for multiple conflicts of interests while running the fleet division.

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