MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Key details offered by city officials on a fraud that cost taxpayers nearly $15 million suggest a high level of sophistication and raise questions about whether a city contractor may have been compromised, according to a retired FBI agent.
Multiple investigations continue into how the city wired $14.7 million to a criminal enterprise impersonating an employee of B.L. Harbert International, the company that is building Regions Arena downtown.
“I would hope that B.L. Harbert, the construction company, is actually looking in their network to figure out how deep do these actors go,” said Darren Mott, a Huntsville-based retired FBI supervisory agent who now runs a pair of cybersecurity firms…