Community TransHIT

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Already busted once.

Now reported again.

1993 — FBI bribery & kickback investigation

FBI and Snohomish County Sheriff's detectives seized Community Transit records. The agency's executive director admitted he was told about kickbacks in the maintenance department and did nothing. A management audit described his treatment of employees as “often autocratic and intimidating.” He resigned. The agency received “blistering criticism.”

Read the Seattle Times report — July 22, 1993 ↗

Now reported to

Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI

Illegal surveillance of citizens. Email interception without warrant authorization. Civil rights violations targeting a gay man. Retaliation for protected public records activity.

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U.S. Postal Inspection Service
USPIS

$160 in cash mailed to a public agency per their own instructions. Payment acknowledged in writing. Requests closed anyway. Mail still unaccounted for.

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U.S. DOT Office of Inspector General
DOT OIG

Conflicts of interest. Nepotism. Vendor contracts awarded to the IT Director's husband. Procurement irregularities. Federal transit funds involved.

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