{"id":91503,"date":"2026-07-02T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91503"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:37:19","slug":"former-city-inspector-banjo-popoola-pleads-guilty-to-steering-work-to-firms-he-controlled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/02\/former-city-inspector-banjo-popoola-pleads-guilty-to-steering-work-to-firms-he-controlled\/","title":{"rendered":"Former city inspector Banjo Popoola pleads guilty to steering work 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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lindaikejisblog.com\/photos\/shares\/65918_1782942940.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian-born engineer pleads guilty to wire fraud in US after steering $1.67m meant for repair of decrepit buildings to himself and family members\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former City of St. Louis employee admitted to directing nearly $4M in city contracts to his own companies\u2014pocketing $1.67M. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlmag.com\/news\/banjo-popoola-building-inspector-guilty\/\">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>The former City of St. Louis employee admitted to directing nearly $4M in city contracts to his own companies\u2014pocketing $1.67M. Read More<\/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":["post-91503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/91503","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=91503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91504,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91503\/revisions\/91504"}],"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=91503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}