Former transit official gets 8 years in prison

April 14, 2010 at 5:50p.m.

CLEVELAND (AP) — A former project manager with Cleveland’s mass transit agency has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for corruption.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Gaughan today sentenced 49-year-old Faisal Alatrash of Westlake on his conviction on bribery, extortion and other charges.

Alatrash was ordered to pay $76,300 in restitution.

He was convicted of demanding bribes for contracts with the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and steering cleaning work to his wife’s business. She was sentenced to nearly two years for lying to the FBI.