Ex-Detroit IT official pleads guilty to taking bribes

The Detroit News: Detroit — The city’s ex-director of information technology services pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting more than $29,500 in bribe payments from two information technology companies providing services and personnel to the city.

Charles L. Dodd Jr., who had been with the city since December 2007, resigned on Monday. He appeared before U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland on Tuesday afternoon and pleaded guilty to one count of federal program bribery.

Dodd, 46, of Canton Township, agreed to the plea after working out a deal with the U.S. Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section in Washington, D.C.

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