Remember when (temporarily former) Mayor Pro Tem Carol Alvarado was shaken as she saw a memo that contained her allegedly forged initials? Courtesy of Houblog, here is the side-by-side comparison of Councilwoman Alvarado’s initials and the allegedly forged ones.
Then Isiah Carey posted a couple of other Bonusgate documents with an entirely different set of initials/signatures (lower left corner). And as Ubu Roi points out, who signed in Mayor White’s spot (lower right corner)?
And now fired Mayor Pro Tem office staffer Christopher Mays says that HIS signature was forged:
Mays collected more than $30,000 in extra pay. His signature appears on many of the documents that allowed the employees under investigation to pad their paychecks.
Now, there are questions about whether Mays’ signature was forged.
He told KPRC by phone, “I can tell you this. My signature was forged, forged many times.”
KPRC checked some documents to compare Mays’ signature with his authentic signature.
One of the documents was a memo from former City Councilman Gordon Quan that surfaced last week.
A former employee of Quan said a memo requesting additional money for the mayor pro tem’s office is absolutely fake. She is not sure if Mays was in on it.
Another document approving the bonuses showed Mays as the one who prepared the paperwork. But sources told KPRC Local 2 that Mays did not have access to the software that would have allowed him to fill out the document.
Are there ANY initials or signatures on ANY documents from the Mayor Pro Tem’s office that can be authenticated??? Was this only going on in the Mayor Pro Tem’s office under Alvarado, or is this SOP throughout city government?
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