DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service employee has changed
his mind and pleaded guilty to taking bribes from a contractor who fixed
mail vehicles in southeastern Michigan.
Denny Robinson had
planned to go to trial Monday but instead made a deal with prosecutors.
He was accused of accepting $75,000 in cash, cars and free vehicle
service in exchange for steering postal trucks and trailers to Metro
Diesel, a Detroit garage.
Robinson’s guilty plea means there will
be no testimony from the star witness, garage owner Joe Fawaz. He paid
bribes to postal employees for years before helping investigators in
2010. Fawaz has not been charged and his cooperation helped his wife get
a light sentence in an unrelated case.
Robinson’s guilty plea is the third in the case.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
DETROIT (AP) — A U.S. Postal Service employee has changed
his mind and pleaded guilty to taking bribes from a contractor who fixed
mail vehicles in southeastern Michigan.
Denny Robinson had
planned to go to trial Monday but instead made a deal with prosecutors.
He was accused of accepting $75,000 in cash, cars and free vehicle
service in exchange for steering postal trucks and trailers to Metro
Diesel, a Detroit garage.
Robinson’s guilty plea means there will
be no testimony from the star witness, garage owner Joe Fawaz. He paid
bribes to postal employees for years before helping investigators in
2010. Fawaz has not been charged and his cooperation helped his wife get
a light sentence in an unrelated case.
Robinson’s guilty plea is the third in the case.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.