1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: The Michael Berry Show, A Little story from Houston. Like 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: to report on what's going on in Houston, even if 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: you don't live within the city limits. There has been 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: rampant corruption City of Houston government. We had a mayor 5 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: by the name of Sylvester Turner, and he was black, 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,080 Speaker 1: and he was corrupt, and if you criticized his corruption 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: and incompetence, he would call you racist. He was very 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: good friends with Sheila Jackson Lee. You do the math, well, 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: this is how bad things work. Our current Mayor, John 10 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: Whipmer has been forced to stop payment of an of 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 1: eight million dollars to a contractor charged with bribery for 12 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:51,639 Speaker 1: giving a kickback to the water department manager who's now 13 00:00:51,720 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: been convicted, named Patrice Lee. After Public Works said there 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: should still be a payment, public Works gave a cutnotes. 15 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: I think it's he. I don't know if it's a 16 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: man or woman, it's a crook. I know that public 17 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: Works said even after he was arrested for taking a 18 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: bribe that they still gave another contract. You can't make 19 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: this stuff up. Listen to this. This is a KPRCTV 20 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: clip number eighteen. 21 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: Mayor Whitmeyer and several city Council members said that this 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 2: criminal defendant and business owner should not receive any money 23 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: from the City of Houston, but they said the subcontractors 24 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: who may have done work under that contract shouldn't be 25 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: penalized for work that they legitimately completed. 26 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: I don't think Neery Constructions should get a dollar. I 27 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: think they should have to fight for what they think 28 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 3: they earned. 29 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 2: The owner of Neery Construction, Joseph Neary, pleaded guilty to 30 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: gift to a public servant in exchange for prosecutors dropping 31 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: his bribery and tampering with government documents charges. The Texas 32 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: Rangers say he paid water maintenance manager Patrees Lee more 33 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: than seventy seven thousand dollars over a fifteen month period, 34 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 2: while the emergency contract she awarded him balloon from more 35 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: than one million to more than eight million dollars. The 36 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 2: Rangers say he paid Lee through cash, app and personal checks. 37 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 2: Nieri and others are debarred or banned from receiving any 38 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 2: future city business, but Public Works recommended council approve paying 39 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 2: Neari eight point three million dollars for work he started 40 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 2: before the grand jury indicted him. 41 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 4: I would think for the behavior that took place. We 42 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 4: should have ironclad language that no, you're not going to 43 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 4: get paid, and maybe that would even discourage anybody tempted 44 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 4: to do anything like this in the future. 45 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 2: The mayor directed City Legal and Public Works to look 46 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 2: at the bill again, to. 47 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 3: Review the work orders and see that the subs are paid. 48 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 3: That nearly construction and Joseph and his brother received no 49 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: city dollars. 50 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: And even though the city's chief procurement officer told KPRC 51 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: two that public Works awarded nearly another contract last year 52 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: after the guilty plea, Jededi Greenfield told us his office 53 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 2: put a hold on that contract. 54 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: When we see someone that's under investigation in our accounting system, 55 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 1: we can put a hold. 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