Cleveland Adult Entertainment: Former ODOT employee indicted for threat
… He threatened harm of the state’s witnesses if that witness testified for the state against him in the ODOT corruption case,” Miday said.
Kratochvil, who served as facilities manager for the Garfield Heights ODOT office, is scheduled to be arraigned today.
The ODOT investigation began after a former employee of North Shore Door in Elyria sent an e-mail to state officials complaining about how contracts were awarded at the office where Kratochvil worked. That e-mail led to a massive probe by Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles, who released a 69-page report last year detailing contract-steering and bribery at the Garfield Heights ODOT office.
The reported laid out numerous allegations, including accusations of strippers, ODOT workers and vendors taking day-long boat trips, expensive Christmas parties at Cleveland strip clubs, and bribes ranging from hunting trips and guns to cash payments and the selling of stolen ODOT equipment by employees.