John Howard Association's Ex-Director Indicted
It doesn't get much worse than this if you are a good government type.
Mike Mahoney, 63, the past director of the John Howard Association, has been indicted by the U.S. Attorney's office. He has moved to Cassopolis, Michigan.
He is accused of paying "kickbacks while representing vendors that had multi-million-dollar contracts with the state prison agency."
The kickbacks allegedly went to George Ryan Corrections Director Don Snyder, 52. Snyder was indicted in July, along with Barrington Hills lobbyist John J. Robinson, 59, and Larry E. Sims, 59, of Pleasant Plains, near Springfield.
In an investigation that grew out of the Safe Roads probe of corruption in the Secretary of State's Office under Ryan, "Mahoney and others allegedly were involved in paying kickbacks totaling approximately $20,000, out of the approximately $50,000 total, to Snyder," according to the the U.S. Attorney's press release, which you can find here.
