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Construction Manager Indicted, Rearrested On Additional Charges

It appears the FBI's ongoing public corruption investigation is nowhere near over, as a construction manager already indicted was rearrested Friday on additional charges.

Adrian Edward Pena, a former employee with CF Jordan, a construction company in El Paso was arrested on additional charges. Friday's charges are not much different then ones he's already facing but now it's along with another defendant.

According to the indictment, he and Pena have been charged with three counts of mail fraud after they allegedly paid $13,000 to a former El Paso Independent School District trustee in order to win a construction bid.

Now sources said they paid that money to to get the work on construction of Brown Middle School in west El Paso. According to the indictment, that trustee was identified as SSM. Sal Mena Jr., a former trustee , has those same initials, and has since pleaded guilty to public corruption charges.

KFOX caught up with Pena's attorney, and he said the charges won't stick.

"I've seen nothing in the evidence that they provided to me that supports a conviction, my client is innocent of that, so frankly, I think this second indictment may show some awareness that they don't don't have him on the first one and it's kind of piling on," said Pena's attorney Tom Stanton.

Pena was rearrested, because in September, he was also arrested on similar charges that he also bribed a former county commissioner with $10,000 to obtain work from the county.

Meanwhile both Pena and the co-defendant Gallegos was given a $50,000 bond.
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