Former transit official gets 8 years in prison


April 15, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Associated Press

CLEVELAND

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

Federal Judge Patricia Gaughan sentenced 49-year-old Faisal Alatrash of Westlake on Wednesday 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.

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