EL PASO, Texas AP – Three former executives of a charity with $834 million in government contracts were arrested Tuesday in a contract fraud probe that has grown to ensnare public officials in El Paso, Texas.
Robert E. Jones, who is charged with 37 counts in the new indictment, once headed the National Center for the Employment of the Disabled, which supplied chemical-warfare suits for the military. The company now known as Ready One Industries was raided in 2006 in an investigation of its government contracts, which required that at least 75 percent of NCED workers filling government orders be blind or severely disabled.
