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Detroit mayor said to pressure for friend’s hiring
AP
DETROIT (AP) — Two construction executives said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and other city officials pressured them to hire a friend of the mayor to work on restoring a downtown hotel, despite their misgivings about his experience.
Bobby Ferguson of Ferguson Enterprises Inc. landed a $7 million contract to do interior demolition and asbestos removal on the Book Cadillac hotel restoration project in 2003.
Paul Lemley and Pete Gass of Alberici Constructors, a St. Louis-based firm hired to renovate the long-vacant hotel, told the Detroit Free Press they believed he was hired to avoid problems with the city.
The inquiry followed a Detroit Free Press report that Ferguson received information about city projects from Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty, the mayor’s former chief of staff.
Bobby Ferguson of Ferguson Enterprises Inc. landed a $7 million contract to do interior demolition and asbestos removal on the Book Cadillac hotel restoration project in 2003.
Paul Lemley and Pete Gass of Alberici Constructors, a St. Louis-based firm hired to renovate the long-vacant hotel, told the Detroit Free Press they believed he was hired to avoid problems with the city.
The inquiry followed a Detroit Free Press report that Ferguson received information about city projects from Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty, the mayor’s former chief of staff.
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