SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A former Bexar County Housing Authority board member has been charged in federal court with illegally taking more than $100,000 in contracts from a Dallas company.
Carlos Madrid Junior was charged yesterday with deprivation of honest services, a charge that could bring up to 20 years in prison.
FBI investigators say Madrid's consulting company secretly accepted payments from Southwest Housing Development while he served on the housing authority board between 2002 and 2006.
Southwest Housing worked with the board to build two large projects, worth $39.7 million.
The arrangement allowed Southwest to qualify for property tax exemptions and federal tax credits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Madrid resigned in May 2006, shortly after the San Antonio Express-News reported his contracts with Southwest Housing.
Madrid's attorney says his client planned to plead guilty to the charge and would ask for a light sentence.
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