The fraud charges arise from an FBI raid of the housing authority office in 2019.
Smith was convicted on all 10 counts of fraud brought against him, while one of those contractors, Douglas Donley was also convicted on two fraud counts. However, most of the work was not done and the contractors would cash the checks and kick back a portion to Robinson and Albert Smith, the agency’s assistant director at the time. The housing authority’s former director, Tonya Robinson, was found guilty on nine out of 10 counts of fraud for leading a scheme where she doled out federal money to contractors to do work on housing authority properties. After seven days of testimony, a jury decided that it had heard enough evidence to convict the former director of the South Bend Housing Authority and two others of taking part in a wire fraud scheme.
