Employee Pleaded Guilty

A former West Virginia Division of Highways employee has pleaded guilty to wire and tax fraud charges, admitting he used his position to funnel inspection work to a South Carolina business in exchange for secret payments totaling about $200,000. Bruce Kenney III, of Norfolk, Virginia, is one of four people indicted in what prosecutors call a conspiracy from 2008 to 2014 to bypass normal state procedures and steer $1.5 million of highway project work to Dennis Corp. of Columbia.