Robert Stears, a longtime spokesman and lobbyist for the Burlington County Bridge Commission, admitted Friday to billing the commission hundreds of thousands of dollars for work not performed.
Stears also admitted that he failed to pay income taxes on much of his ill-gotten gains, entering guilty pleas to a two-count federal charge of mail fraud and income tax evasion.
One can only wonder what will come next as there have been both federal and state criminal investigations into what amounted to no-bid, no-show, no-work contracts.
It has been alleged that the former GOP Chair Tom Wilson's firms received millions of dollars in contracts and Senator Martha Bark has been under investigation after being paid $330,000 for work that has not been documented.
