Financial kickbacks relating to demolition contracts.
A maintenance director at Maher Terminals in Union County admitted his role in soliciting and accepting bribes to award contracts for demolition and construction projects at a container ship terminal facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced Wednesday.
Donald Olesky, 54, of Sayreville, pleaded guilty to two counts of using, and causing to be used, the mail in aid of an unlawful activity, specifically commercial bribery under New Jersey law. Olesky entered his guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson in Trenton federal court on Nov. 16.
According to documents filed in this case and statements in court: Olesky served as the director of facility maintenance at Maher Terminals at Port Elizabeth. From 2000 through February 2007, Olesky solicited and accepted in excess of $50,000 in kickbacks from a demolition contractor in exchange for Olesky’s assistance in steering and awarding demolition contracts at Maher Terminals’ facility.
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