{"id":87133,"date":"2026-03-31T07:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87133"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:51:55","slug":"former-st-louis-building-inspector-charged-with-steering-city-contracts-to-firms-he-controlled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/former-st-louis-building-inspector-charged-with-steering-city-contracts-to-firms-he-controlled\/","title":{"rendered":"Former St. Louis building inspector charged with steering city contracts to firms he controlled"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lindaikejisblog.com\/photos\/shares\/52063_1774880492.png\" alt=\"Nigerian-born engineer accused of steering $1.67m meant for repair of decrepit buildings in US to himself and relatives\" \/>Companies tied to Adebanjo \u201cBanjo\u201d Popoola cashed in on $4M in ARPA funds\u2014and federal prosecutors say Popoola himself awarded the contracts.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlmag.com\/news\/banjo-popoola-criminal-charges-federal\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Companies tied to Adebanjo \u201cBanjo\u201d Popoola cashed in on $4M in ARPA funds\u2014and federal prosecutors say Popoola himself awarded the contracts.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Adebanjo-Popoola.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87135,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87133\/revisions\/87135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}