Pittsburgh’s former mayor “exploited” existing procedures to award no-bid contracts and grants to favored groups and possibly violated federal securities law by covering up the city’s true finances, according to an unsealed affidavit for a search warrant served on city government earlier this year.
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr.’s office served the search warrant in March seeking records from former Mayor Ed Gainey’s administration.
Gainey lost to current Mayor Corey O’Connor in last year’s Democratic primary…