Former Cleveland State employee gave contracts to relatives’ companies in exchange for bribes, indictment says
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
View above the campus of Cleveland State University, Cleveland, photographed on Thursday, September 22, 2016. (Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer)The Plain Dealer
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CLEVELAND, Ohio A current and former Cleveland State University employee are among five people indicted in what prosecutors say was a scheme that steered more than $250,000 in contracts to one of the employee’s relatives.
Marlene Gombach approved grant-funded contracts to pay media companies owned by her son, nephew and business associate in exchange for cash bribes from 2013 to 2016, when she worked as a project manager in the university’s Center for Excellence and Innovation in Education, according to the indictment.