AM Show Hr 2 | Oh Wow, Corruption In The Turner Admin? Shocking.
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So under those eight years of Sebastian |
| 0:02.0 | there were scams and schemes people have gone to prison. |
| 0:08.0 | The marketing director for the housing department pled guilty to taking bribes. This culture of corruption is so bad. It is so extensive and there's a tendency to focus on and I've said this about |
| 0:30.6 | Hunter Biden and Joe Biden there's a tendency to focus on the |
| 0:34.7 | unjust enrichment of people working for the government by taking bribes. But what gets lost is the even bigger concern and that is a concern. |
| 0:50.0 | That choices are being made for contractors, for service providers, based on a bribe, |
| 1:01.0 | and not based on who can do the job. |
| 1:03.0 | And when someone pays a bribe to get a contract, |
| 1:07.0 | there's no accountability from the city official who took the bribe, |
| 1:12.0 | they can't say, if you don't get this right we'll fire you because |
| 1:17.2 | then they'll be exposed as having taken a bribe. On Friday while we were |
| 1:22.2 | talking about President Trump, Patrice Lee was |
| 1:25.8 | Sylvester Turner's Water Department manager, along with her brother. I mean she |
| 1:30.6 | didn't even try to hide this she's given contracts to her brother |
| 1:33.9 | Have been arrested for bribery abuse of official capacity and tampering with government documents for handing out no-bid |
| 1:40.3 | contracts to friends and family with no experience to fix broken water lines |
| 1:47.6 | across the city. I mean this is literally just hey boo you got the contract do the water kick me back half of it |
| 1:55.9 | I don't know I do no water you don't need to |
| 2:01.0 | John Wettmeyer and Kimog both pointed out how Turner tried to put a lid on the case by keeping it in an internal office of |
| 2:11.0 | Inspector General investigation and not a criminal case. |
| 2:14.2 | Oh, no, no, we'll handle this internally. |
| 2:16.8 | Don't worry. |
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