The owner of a Brooklyn construction company was charged today with bribing Con Ed officials to the tune of nearly $60,000 in return for signing off on his inflated invoices.
Russell Ball, the CEO of Roadway, Inc., was released on $100,000 bond, secured by he and his wife’s Vermont vacation home.
Ball, 82, handed over $20,000 to $30,000 in cash payments and another $27,800 in checks to a corrupt Con Ed construction supervisor who shared the money with other shady colleagues, according to court papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.
Much of the work Roadway performed work for Con Ed involved repair of the infrastructure in lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks.