GOSHEN – Orange County Government Attorney Rick Golden said the FBI has served a subpoena for documents to the county’s controversial contract for information technology services to StarCIO.
Golden said it was directly to the county “generally,” to the attention of the county attorney. “No individual in the county was served with a subpoena.”
Golden said the county “will fully comply with the subpoena’s request for documents.”
The issue came to life when a whistleblower informed State Senator James Skoufis (D, Cornwall) of a no-bid deal that resulted in Human Resources Commissioner Langdon Chapman’s brother-in-law’s company earning some $800,000 under a contract that was initially awarded for $64,000 work of part-time work.
Golden, Chapman and his relative have denied any wrongdoing in the case, but Skoufis has maintained that it was a crooked deal.
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