A federal indictment made public Thursday accused Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson of accepting secret funding for his trucking business from a clout-heavy waste hauling firm and then lying about it in a civil deposition. An arraignment has not yet been scheduled. Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson. Calls to the mayor’s office were referred to an attorney for the village who was not immediately available.
” According to the federal indictment, around the same time Bracken was helping Jackson start up Centennial Holdings, he was also paid $18,000 by the mayor to perform a “spring clean-up” in the village, even though Tri-State was already under contract to do so. The charges alleged Jackson then lied multiple times about his dealings with Bracken during a sworn deposition on Feb. 25, 2021.