McCormick Place operations manager Dominick Gironda charged with pocketing kickbacks from snowplow vendor in Chicago [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — An operations manager at McCormick Place has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly pocketing kickbacks from a company contracted to provide snowplow services at the facility, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said in a news release Wednesday.

Dominick Gironda was employed by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which operates McCormick Place, and managed contracts with vendors that provided services at the McCormick Place campus, the release said.

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According to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, Gironda schemed with an associate, James Sansone, to approve inflated invoices for services that were not actually provided at McCormick Place.

The false invoices included compensation for individuals who had not worked on particular snow removal projects and equipment that had not been used, the indictment states.

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