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with a red dot are the ones who get state business and who have had to contribute to Gilligan to get it.. It is believed that much of the cash collected is not turned over to Gilligan and never reported. A complete audit of such areas will reveal this.. Another way to extort additional funds from suppliers of materials. to the Transportation Department has been devised. Purchasing is now dane in the districts under the Division Engineer. Purchase Orders are still issued from the Central Office, but the District makes them up and sends them in for recommendation, so both levels get their hands in the pocket of the businessman before he gets any business. Director Richley of the Transportation Department gets payoffs from two main sourses--two consulting engineering firms. They are E. S. Preston of Columbus, Ohio, and Dalton, Dalton and Little of Cleveland, Ohio. These contracts provida' for'no bids.- It~is'a straight percentage. deal of the amount of business they get. Some of it is kickback from federal funds. E. S. Preston has a racket at the Transportation Center on Route 33 north of Marysville, Ohio.. The surveys being run by Dalton, Dalton and Little are costing the . state twice as much as they should.. Richley has received financial help from. Ohio. Richley wants to run for public office and he is accepting cash of Youngstown, on his own. A newspaper article, attached as 'p", in the Columbus Dispatch on Sept. 30, l973, really pointed up the whole area of kickbacks, contribution corruption, and cronyism. Another article, attached as 'g", shows the extent of such corruption in the Department of Transportation and other areas. b6 per USDOT D-731207071* 0r* v*1 b7C