KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Six Kansas City public works employee have been charged with lying about damaged road signs so they could be called in on overtime to fix them.
The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release that a 13-count indictment was unsealed Thursday in the nearly three-year-old, $58,000 overtime fraud conspiracy. The unsealing followed the arrest of 36-year-old Prentis Rayford, 47-year-old Eric McKamey, 61-year-old Paul Myers, 47-year-old Edward Lee Ellingburg, 33-year-old Kenneth Gethers and 49-year-old Julio Prospero.
The indictment alleges the workers made false reports and enlisted the
help of friends and relatives. Suspicious managers began going to the scene and photographing signs that weren’t busted.
They also tracked the GPS on work trucks and found the vehicle often
didn’t go to the location of the supposedly downed sign.
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