Men beg guilty to kickback intrigue during Wayne propagandize district

Greenville, N.C. — Two former Wayne County Public Schools employees pleaded guilty Tuesday to open crime charges in a bid-rigging scheme, authorities said.

Danny Lee Langley, 54, of Snow Hill, a propagandize district’s former upkeep director, pleaded guilty to bribery. Earl Wayne Rhodes, 58, of Pikeville, Langley’s former assistant, pleaded guilty to swindling to dedicate bribery.

Both group will be condemned later. Langley faces adult to 10 years in sovereign prison, while Rhodes faces adult to 5 years.

Prosecutors pronounced a group helped All-American Roofing and Construction Inc., a Johnston County thatch contractor, win bids for several propagandize thatch projects between 2002 and 2009. All-American Roofing would afterwards give them kickbacks for steering work a way.

Between 2004-05 and 2008-09, All-American Roofing won some-more than $2 million in contracts from a propagandize district, accounting for some-more than half of a annual thatch bill in some years, prosecutors said.

All-American Roofing would contention feign invoices to comment for a kickback, inventory a income paid to Langley and Rhodes as “job materials,” prosecutors said.

Company owners Pamela Carol Turner, 45, of Selma, pleaded guilty to structuring deposits to hedge bank stating requirements. Her associate, David Lee Tedder, 50, of Selma, pleaded guilty to swindling to dedicate bribery.

Turner and Tedder are available sentencing.