A former city of Chicago worker is accused of accepting a $500 bribe to help a cable company fraudulently get more than $8.3 million in contracts under the city's minority business program.
Leon Moore, 41, worked for the city’s Department of Procurement Services and was authorized to certify businesses under the program when he accepted the payoff, according to federal authorities.
Under the scheme, the now-defunct ICS Cable was improperly certified as a minority business and obtained more than $8.3 million in subcontracts from a cable company that serves the North Side.
Four people from the company were charged with mail fraud: the two owners, Guy Potter, 64, of Versailles, Ky., and formerly of Bensenville, and Matthew Giovenco, 41, of Grayslake; Jerone Brown, 30, of Chicago, who purported to be the minority owner of ICS and function as its president; and Cheronne Mayes, 49, of Chicago, who allegedly passed the bribe to Moore.
A federal indictment alleges that Potter and Giovenco together received at least $2.25 million in
proceeds from ICS during the scheme, that Brown received about $63,000 and that Mayes received about $17,000.
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