The Detroit Public Library's chief administrative officer is off the payroll, fired amid a federal corruption inquiry, Christine Macdonald reports in The Detroit News.
Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cromer had been on paid leave from his $145,323-a-year post since mid-November, when the FBI raided his office at the library's main branch and his West Bloomfield Township home. Cromer was fired Wednesday by Detroit Public Library Executive Director Jo Anne Mondowney. . . .
Russ Bellant, the library board president, wouldn't comment on why Cromer was fired and would only say, "There's an ongoing internal investigation." . . .
Federal investigators are focused on two library contractors that combined won nearly $5 million in technology work, . . . according to a search warrant The News obtained.
A federal indictment charges one company's owner with paying an unnamed public official at least $600,000 in kickbacks, notes Macdonald, who first reported alleged mismanagement, nepotism and cost overruns at the library.
