>FYI : Kenneth Disko of Mountainside pleads guilty to rigging school construction contracts
Disko Associates, which has worked with Ridgewood for about 30 years
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
An engineer with a firm employed by the Ridgewood school district has been charged with taking more than $80,000 in kickbacks in relation to construction projects in three other school districts.
As a contracted engineer and architect in the school districts of Westfield, Tinton Falls and Scotch Plains-Fanwood, Kenneth Disko, 47, of Mountainside, “allegedly orchestrated a series of bid-rigging and kickback schemes from 2001 to 2010,” according to the office of the state Attorney General. The kickbacks allegedly involved rigged bids and fraudulently inflated costs; three contractors were also indicted for providing the kickbacks in exchange for providing artificially inflated cost estimates for the construction projects.
