Lawrence former Mayor Michell Sullivan employee, Bryan Cahoon IT director charged for Fraud, Stealing federal funds.

In hands of Justice Lawrence IT consultant for Fraud, Stealing federal funds.

Fall in hands of the justice one of employees and director of corrupt administration of former Lawrence Mayor Michael Sullivan. Information Technology Department's director, Bryan Cahoon was charged for conspiring to steal thousands of dollars in federal grants.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has charged Cahoon, 53, of Dover, N.H., with a felony count of theft and fraud concerning programs receiving federal funds.

Cahoon, the city's IT Department as an employee and later a consultant, obtained more than $10,000 fraudulently during a period from early 2008 until late 2009. During that period, Cahoon "subverted" state bidding laws and caused at least eight contracts with the city totaling $193,460 "to be awarded to his friends and associates."

Records noted his "scheme to steal" targeted federal programs involving hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cahoon a Sullivan allied, resigned abruptly from his consulting job with the city within weeks of Mayor William Lantigua's inauguration on Jan. 4, 2010

Moreover, there are many concern regarding Former mayor Michael Sullivan giveaway city properties to his political allies too. Record showed that Towerhill Association founder James Ross and community activist Isabel Melendez. Sullivan received, respectively, all Community Access Channel and a School building in South Lawrence and many others properties.

At Inauguration Ceremony William Lantigua in his speech make public a city mess “...promised to dig into the city's problems, looking into everything from a $17.5 million budget deficit" left by the previous administration of Michael Sullivan.