On April 15, 2025, a non-DOJ individual was charged by Information on one count of Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds. According to the Information and related plea agreements, from in or around January 2021 through in or around March 2022, Jessie Bledsoe, the operator and co-owner of JB Railroad, made payments totaling $75,956 with the intent to influence and reward an agent of Miami-Dade County, Dale Robinson, in the award of purchase orders from Miami-Dade Transit for work on the Metrorail system. Bledsoe made these payments after receiving invoices from Tailored Railroads, a company created at Robinson’s direction to disguise the payments, The investigation is being conducted by the OIG’s Huntsville Locale and the FBI.
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