Posted on 04/30/2015 6:32:44 PM PDT by markomalley
The chief of police at the nation's busiest container port was indicted Thursday on federal corruption charges that accuse him of hiding his business links to a software developer he was helping win a contract at the port.
Ronald Jerome Boyd -- the chief of police at the Port of Los Angeles for more than a decade -- faces charges of wire fraud, making false statements to federal agents and tax evasion, according to the 16-count indictment.
The charging document alleges that Boyd defrauded the city "by means of bribery and kickbacks" and provided confidential information about the port to the software vendor.
Boyd, 57, is accused of helping the software developer obtain a contract with the city of Los Angeles while simultaneously forming a joint venture with the company that he failed to disclose and later lied about in an interview with federal agents.
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Only in Obamamerica do we distrust the government so much that this is ALWAYS a reasonable question.
Hillary does stuff 50 times worse and not a peep.
Making room for the Obama loyalists to have jobs at the end of his term. Clinton filled the state run universities and banking.
Jerome?
When I was in grad school I had a friend who was a Communist. His code word for Blacks was “Jerome”. I never quite understood where it came from.
Sad but true
Those rascally Amish, just a barrel of laughs.
For some, more is never enough.
The people who were bribed in the city gov’t and schools to give Apple the iPad business and Pearson the software contract valued at $1.3 billion. You know “For the children”
No one has gone to jail.
I was debating if he was of Amish origins. I was thinking maybe 50-50 if I was betting. Turns out he is indeed Amish.
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