Houston Mayor John Whitmire stopped a payout last week to a Houston business owner charged with bribery, following KPRC 2’s ‘DRAINED’ Investigation into the city’s waterline contract corruption scandal. Now that business owner says he’s sorry for what happened and explains he’s still owed for the finished work.
The payout was for work completed on an unrelated city project.
Nerie was charged with bribery and tampering with government documents last year. Texas Rangers investigators say he paid Patrece Lee, a water maintenance manager, more than $77,000 over 15 months. During that time, the emergency contracts Lee awarded to Nerie’s company ballooned from $1 million to over $8 million…