Robert C. Leonard is still a patent holder of the bus camera scheme being used in MCPS. Is he profiting from this scheme while in federal prison?
MCPS and the Police kept using this company even after the FBI moved in and began making arrests. The employees of the company simpy picked a new name, their 4th, and MCPS kept using them without ever putting this procurement out for competitive bids.
Yes, this company has competitors.
Robert Leonard, the businessman at the center of the Dallas County Schools scandal has reported to federal prison.
Federal Bureau of Prisons records show Leonard is now in custody at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oakdale, Louisiana.
In May, Leonard was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the corruption scandal that brought down DCS. He admitted paying millions of dollars of bribes to Dallas County Schools Superintendent Rick Sorrells
[Sorrells met with MCPS and MoCo Police to sell them on the MCPS bus camera deal.]
and Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway.
Those bribes helped Leonard’s company, Force Multiplier Solutions, maintain its business relationship with DCS.
Force Multiplier had contracts with DCS to provide school bus safety cameras on the fleet of buses which once transported more than 75,000 children to school each day. The corruption scandal nearly bankrupted the agency which was eventually shut down by the Texas legislature and Dallas County voters.
Caraway is currently serving a four and a half year sentence. Sorrells is scheduled for sentencing next month.
Leonard’s close associate Slater Swartwood Sr. was sentenced in July to 18 months for his role as the middle man in the bribery scheme...
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