Houston man charged with bribing Ohio union officials
CLEVELAND, OH
The U.S. attorney's office for northern Ohio said Monday that
59-year-old Robert L. McKinney of Houston is charged with one count
of conspiracy to commit bribery in federally funded programs. The
government says McKinney paid large sums of cash to the officials
to get on a list of attorneys who represent injured union workers
and to have the workers directed to his firm.
The government says McKinney conspired with former union
president Edward Rodzwicz and another official identified as "BLET
official No. 1" from about June 2006 until October 2009.
McKinney's attorney and the union did not immediately return
calls.
Rodzwicz is in prison on an unrelated crime.
