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<h1>Crooked Baltimore City Transit Boss Guilty of Grand Larceny of Taxpayer Money Gets Off With Only One Year in Slammer</h1>
<p><strong>Took $20,000 to Cancel Debt Owed to City and Took $70,000 to ‘Sell’ Government Property</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">BALTIMORE, MD—Caught red-handed with a scheme to make off with over $300 G’s in public money and this crooked City of Baltimore will only spend one year in prison.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">According to the FBI, Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Barry Stephen Robinson, 65, of Accokeek, Maryland, on June 23, 2015 to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with a bribery scheme perpetrated in 2014 while Robinson was Chief of the Division of Transit and Marine Services of the Baltimore City Department of Transportation. Chief Judge Blake also ordered Robinson to pay forfeiture in the amount of $20,000, of which all but $13,550 had already been seized.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Baltimore City Inspector General Robert H. Pearre, Jr.; and Special Agent in Charge Thomas Jankowski of the Internal Revenue Service—Criminal Investigation, Washington, D.C. Field Office.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Barry Stephen Robinson took a $20,000 bribe to cancel a $60,000 debt owed to Baltimore City, and a $70,000 bribe to allow the theft of city property worth $250,000,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “This sort of corruption can occur when dishonest people are trusted to handle valuable government property.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Using his official position and the resources of Baltimore City, Robinson abused the trust placed in him in order to personally enrich himself,” said Thomas Jankowski, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Washington D.C. Field Office. “IRS-Criminal Investigation stands committed to weed out individuals, such as Robinson, who take the path to financial enhancement through greed and corruption at the expense of those they serve.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Barry Robinson was Chief of the Division of Transit and Marine Services of the Baltimore City Department of Transportation and supervised Baltimore City’s “Circulator” and “Water Taxi” programs. He had authority to approve contracts with advertisers and vendors and to purchase and pay for goods and services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the spring of 2013, Robinson received a check for $40,000 payable to the Baltimore City Director of Finance, in payment for advertising on Circulator buses. Robinson returned the check and proposed that for $20,000 in cash, he would cancel the $40,000 debt to the city and provide written documentation that it had been paid. The debtor declined the offer at that time. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In January 2014, Robinson renewed his offer to extinguish the debt to the City of Baltimore. This time, he offered to cancel $60,000 of debt in return for $20,000 in cash. From January 23 to March 11, 2014, Robinson received four cash payments of $5,000 each. In return, Robinson provided a signed letter on Baltimore City letterhead falsely stating that the $60,000 debt had been paid.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Robinson also admitted that he stole and sold bus shelters belonging to the City for $70,000. In 2011, Robinson arranged for Baltimore City to purchase 13 bus shelters from a Canadian company for $249,290. On multiple occasions from May 2013 to March 2014, Robinson said since the city did not keep track of the shelters, he planned to sell them for his personal benefit. On April 9, 2014, Robinson accepted $70,000, in return for the city’s bus shelters.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seeking to disguise the source of the bribery proceeds, Robinson deposited the cash bribe payments he received into two bank accounts in the name of another person, and used a portion of the proceeds to install carpeting, televisions and a range hood in his home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">According to court documents, the intended loss to the City of Baltimore from Robinson’s schemes was approximately $310,000.</span></p>
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