Former O.C. Exec Held on Suspicion of Bribery
A businessman and a former Orange County data processing executive have been arrested on suspicion of felony bribery, officials said Wednesday.
The two are Masoud Sadr-Mirzael, 59, and Reza Khayyami, 47, who was fired last May from his job as one of the county’s top information and technology officers, said Susan Kang Schroeder, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office.
Khayyami allegedly accepted a $5,000 bribe from Intratek, a Huntington Beach computer firm, to get county business, Schroeder said. Sadr-Mirzael allegedly funneled the money to Khayyami.
If convicted, she said, each man could face up to four years in prison.
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