Chris Kelly's 'co-schemer' :Roofing consultant helped Blago adviser get airport deals

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

George M. Criel is a roofing consultant who has worked for Chicago's Merchandise Mart as well as American Airlines and United Airlines.

Criel has another identity, too. He's "co-schemer A'' -- the previously unidentified consultant who federal prosecutors say got $450,000 in kickbacks for helping former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's top adviser, Christopher Kelly, get $8.5 million in rigged contracts from American and United, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.


Between 1998 and 2006, Criel and Kelly allegedly ran a scheme to steal from those airlines by inflating the cost of roofing projects and making sure that Kelly's company -- BCI Commercial Roofing -- submitted the lowest bids for the work, according to prosecution court filings in the Kelly case. Their actions "guaranteed profits'' for Kelly and kickbacks for "co-schemer A," who was working for the airlines, according to prosecutors.

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