DETROIT, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – John Gibson, 55, of Detroit , a former Wayne County Roads Division employee was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for conspiring to defraud the county out of over $2.3 million, the United States Attorney’s Office said.
He pleaded guilty in July 2023.
According to officials, Gibson and fellow Wayne County employee Kevin Gunn schemed to use taxpayer dollars to make unauthorized purchases of generators and other equipment from stores which they sold for hundreds of thousands in personal profit, the attorney’s office said.
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Gunn also pleaded guilty as part of the scheme and was sentenced to nearly three years in prison in November 2023, officials said.
The two men solicited vendors on behalf of the county and submitted invoices that the vendors falsified, stating they were authorized to sell the items to the county under their contracts, according to officials. After approval, the department paid each vendor with taxpayer funds.