Another #AllinTheFamily scam in #Memphis!
Leon Blackmon Sr, a former City of Memphis-Division of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Analyst, and 8 family members & acquaintances were indicted in a multi million $ government contracting fraud scheme.
#ButNothingsHappening
Leon Blackmon Sr, a former City of Memphis-Division of Housing and Community Development (HCD) Analyst, and 8 family members & acquaintances were indicted in a multi million $ government contracting fraud scheme.
#ButNothingsHappening
Also charged were:
Leon Blackmon Jr
Karl "Shun" Blackmon
Larry Donnell Banks Jr
Charles M. Bell
Shaunita Lacole Callicutt
Sharon D. Taylor
Teressa Lynn Taylor
Henry J. Taylor
Mendel L. Wade
Leon Blackmon Jr
Karl "Shun" Blackmon
Larry Donnell Banks Jr
Charles M. Bell
Shaunita Lacole Callicutt
Sharon D. Taylor
Teressa Lynn Taylor
Henry J. Taylor
Mendel L. Wade
Blackmon Sr selected the vendors to maintain city owned properties and lots and also approved them and submitted check requests.
Apparently, all the Blackmons also had auto businesses, because they recruited family, friends, and employees from those businesses to start lawn companies and become city vendors.
Those lawn companies would then submit invoices for work to Blackmon Sr at HCD, even though some of those properties were already being maintained by others and/or were inaccessible and couldn’t be maintained.
From 2009 to 2016 (note the dates again) the city paid $1.6 million to those law companies based on invoices submitted to Blackmon. About 50% of that was billed fraudulently.
