Cleveland Strip Clubs: Figure in ODOT corruption probe arraigned, other defendant sentenced
Bauer had already pleaded guilty Aug. 11 to one felony count of bribery and one felony count of attempted tampering with records.
In Kratochvil’s arraignment today, prosecutors said he made a menacing phone call to a witness, who is another defendant in the ODOT case, on Sept. 14 while that witness was in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
Prosecutors said the defendant went on to plead guilty to bribery and and theft in his own case.
The Ohio Inspector General released a report Oct. 16, 2008, that named Kratochvil as the main person in a longtime scheme of bid-rigging and fraud at ODOT’s District 12’s offices.
Vendors were also involved, allegedly “buying” contracts with vacations, fishing trips, money and strippers, and Kratochvil was named with a handful of other ODOT employees as being involved.
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