Dayton approved contract without checking work history
The city of Dayton gave more than $1 million in construction contracts to the five-time felon in 2009 and 2010, then continued paying him after local environmental officials warned the city his company had demolished vacant buildings without properly removing cancer-causing asbestos, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.
Now the city could face steep fines because of shoddy work done by Alex Penland’s Cincinnati-based company, AR Environmental Inc., which also may have exposed residents to health risks.
Dayton approved the contract without checking into his work history and our reporters have dug into this story to find out exactly what work the company said it performed and how this was found to be incorrect.
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