➡ The Houston mayor and other city officials have been accused of nepotism and favoritism in hiring practices, often using public funds to give high-paying jobs to their acquaintances. Allegedly, KPRC 2 investigations have revealed similar practices in the city’s Department of Public Works and the Houston airport system. A notable instance involves Marvin Agumagu, a $95,000 a year intern, whose position was reportedly created by the mayor.
➡ Andy Icken is questioned about his son-in-law, Roger Aber’s employment at the airport, which overlaps with Icken’s signing off a $22 million deal with Aber’s employer, Parsons. Icken insisted there’s no conflict of interest, however, Mayor-elect John Whitmeyer pledges to end such dealings and is expected to request resignations from current city directorates, criticizing the financial burden on taxpayers and rampant fraudulent behavior.

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Special jobs for special people with public dollars. It is not just what KPRC two investigates has recently exposed in the city’s department of Public Works. In fact, over the last five years, we have exposed the same kind of behavior in the Houston airport system. One common theme we have seen, questionable, high paying salaried positions funded with your public dollars. This is all about who you know at the top when it comes to being hired.

And one man who knows this well is KPRC two investigates. Mario Diaz. He has been the one exposing a lot of this after city leadership doesn’t want to answer his questions. Take a look. Roger Haybear. Do you know who he is? Yes, I do. He is who he is a worker on the program. He’s also the son of law, Van Dick. He is. More on Roger Abair in a moment.

But once again, KPRC two investigates is exposing special people landing special jobs. Listen, word of advice, I don’t care if it’s a news crew or the police department. Never ever, don’t ever answer questions to somebody that got a microphone unless you’re doing a street interview and you know what I’m saying. You know exactly what the interview going to be before they start asking questions. Never ever volunteer information.

Especially when you out there showing up like a deer in headlights or you committed a crime if you’re doing something that you’re not supposed to do. If you got any skeletons in your closet, you keep walking, you don’t pass go, you don’t turn to the left, you don’t turn to the right, you don’t collect $200, you keep walking. You don’t ever answer a question from a reporter because they going to get you jammed up.

They going to have you jammed up, big dog. Especially if you got a little baddie right next to you and you pulling some favors with high ranking city officials using public dollars to make it all happen. I cannot talk to you. Remember Maricella Kruzman? She was more than a special friend to airport director Mario Diaz. I was close to Maricella and I gave her that job because I think she could do the best job.

And I was right. And you were in a relationship with her at the time. And I was right. Yes, I was in a relationship. Under no circumstance is. Because, see, what people don’t realize is that the real finesse is you don’t use your money to take care of these hoes. You know what you do? You give them a job. That’s the one thing that these politicians have been had over you all or these people in position of power.

Not even just politicians. People in positions of power, people that works at certain jobs. That’s why the rich keep getting richer, is because they use other people’s money. Not just when it comes to financing their businesses or real estate. They use other people’s money. When it comes to financing a chicks, that’s the finesse. See, you all behind the lines as far as this culture that we didn’t been in for this whole time, right? Y’all think that y’all supposed to be out here spending money on these hoes, whining, dining them, taking them to roof.

Chris, that ain’t even your wife. Right? That ain’t what the game has been. White men, asian men, men in positions of power have been using a system way different than y’all to think that y’all got to get a bag and y’all doing it like academics. Academics is over here taking his hard earned money, crashing out, getting it stolen, tricking off on these chicks, going into the strip club.

No, the wolf of Wall street should have told you that they do it differently. See, the real game has always been trick off with the corporate card. Let the people pay, let the constituents pay. Let the residents pay. Let the taxpayers pay for these chicks. So now what they were doing is power. With power comes the ability to be able to provide opportunities. So then they put them in a position, I’m not going to trick my money off of you.

I’m going to let the taxpayers listen. You give a little gog golf 3000, I’m going to get you a job at the airport. That’s how it’s been playing the best job. And I was right. And you were in a relationship with her at the time, and I was right? Yes, I was in a relationship. We revealed. Answer, no. Using his job back in 2014 to help cruisemen secure the job of director of the Houston airport’s system harmony in the air program.

Cruiseman even kept a newly created gig after it was discovered she misled the city with false credentials while applying for the job Diaz signed off on. I didn’t create the job for her. I created, signed off on it, created the position for the program. I didn’t create the job for her. I created the position for the program that she just so happened to not have the credentials to be able to get into because we was in a relationship at the time.

I didn’t create the job for her. I created the position within the program that I controlled for her to be able to get the job because we were sleeping together, and she had a good night. We had a good night. I never had this type of loving that I’ve ever had in my entire life. I didn’t create the position for. I created the position for the job for her that she ain’t qualified to get the position for, that she took over and that she still got to the day.

Y’all sad chicks is going to have y’all crashing out in the real life. Look, he ain’t even black. He ain’t academics. He did in the same position that academics is in, except for he probably under investigation. You got the news crew, KPRC two on his head. And I asked myself, who is best suited for that position? She was. And although his girlfriend landed a nice new career in the airport system, he runs with public dollars, Diaz, to this day, asks, so tell me how I’m being benefited.

Mayor, what is your relationship with Marvin Agumagu? I have no idea who you’re talking about, mayor. You have no idea who Marvin Agumagu is? I have no idea. And who can forget about the airport’s $95,000 a year intern, Marvin Agumagu? Mayor Sylvester Turner denied knowing him, even though he signed off on the creation of Agumagu’s nearly $100,000 a year internship. Shout out to Agumagu. Abu Dhabi is over here getting to the bag.

Shout out to Abu Dhabi and Mayor pulling favors in order to get Abu Dhabi his $100,000 internship. Yo, interns is getting 100 bands for public positions that’s ran with public dollars. Shout out to Abu Dhabi, getting that bag. Shout out to you, big dog. It’s about who you know, not what you know. With Agumagu telling Diaz whether or not he wanted to stay on after a year, the lucrative position all started with Diaz receiving an email from his supervisor, Andy Ickin, asking, could you develop a position? I did not create a job under orders of anybody.

Never has the mayor or Andy ever asked me to do anything. Could you develop a position? Is what they said. Yes. Which brings us to the why is he still talking to him? Why is he talking? You ain’t got to answer no questions. Did you see how the ball head mirror when they asked him about Abu Dhabi and he just kept on going? I don’t know what you talking.

I wouldn’t even have said that. I just would have just kept on walking. Latest chapter. We uncovered Icken’s personal interests in our city’s airport system. It involves someone very special, his son in law, Roger Abair, a senior manager working for a contractor involved with the Houston spaceport and the redevelopment of the international terminal at Bush Intercontinental Airport, the latter having seen massive delays and cost overruns. Roger Haybear, do you know who he is? Yes, I do.

He is who. If you look at the people in the back, they doing like this. That’s because they got skeletons in their closets, too. They just smart enough to walk to the left. Everybody got to go to the bathroom. Ain’t nobody coming out the bathroom until after this investigation is done. Look at the people. Look at the people in the back. Roger Haybear, do you know who he is? Look at my man right here.

Yes, I do. He is who heck about a on the program. He’s also the son in law of Andy. He is a son in law with a very powerful father in law. You see, Ickin is the city’s chief development officer who just happens to oversee director Diaz and billions in construction dollars tied to the airport system and its outside contractors. We emailed icken multiple times about his son in law’s employment.

He didn’t want to answer our specific questions until he had no option. Hey, Andy, how you doing? Mario Diaz with channel. Mario, I gotta ask it. Roger Aber, your son in law, how long has he been working at the airport? I don’t know. You have to talk to his employer about that. But he’s your son in law, Andy. You don’t know when your son in law started at the airport? He’s changed jobs.

I don’t know how it’s happened. Three days after his interview, Ickin admitted his son in law landed at the airport court in 2017. His employer is Parsons, the same company that in the year prior, Ickins signed off on a $22 million deal. Since then, KPRC two investigates has identified tens of millions in construction contracts involving Parsons with Ickins personal seal of approval. What do you tell Houstonians about all of these special individuals getting all of these jobs at the airport? Whether it be Maricella Cruzman, whether it be Marvin Agumagu whose job you helped create with the mayor to your son in law, Mario.

He earned whatever he earned, he replied for a posting position and then he ended up with a different employer than the city. There’s not going to be the conflicts of interest that we’re witnessing. Mayor like John Whitmeyer already is weighing into what KPRC two investigates uncovered and what he plans to do. That won’t be allowed. Why are y’all holding hands in a picture in my administration? It ought to end.

It should have never started and it won’t happen with me. I’m not about that. City hall insiders say they expect Mayor like John Whitmeyer to request the resignations of all current city of Houston directors the moment he takes office. A number of them will be allowed to reapply with a handful possibly holding on to their jobs. And all of it comes at the cost and the expense of the taxpayers.

And nobody is ever going to refund you. That’s the worst part about it. You all absolutely are the ones that are paying for the mistakes that the legislators get in. And then it’s always some people over there. Amen. Your son in law is a pos. Oh, he ain’t got no credentials. That’s all right. Daddy going to take care of him. It’s bad. Houston. Houston. Houston is running rampant with fraud from the top to the bottom, from the top to the bottom.

The best thing that y’all could have did. I got to give Houston a little bit of credit. At least they elected a new mayor that more closely aligns with what’s in the best interests of the city. But from the rappers to the trappers all the way up to the politicians, they are running rampant. And this happens in more places than you could ever imagine. It happens in corporate America.

It happens in private equity firms. Some chick is making $250,000 a year being a masseuse somewhere in the back room or whatever, and she ain’t never even showed up for the job on the payroll. But these people are doing it with public funds and public dollars that a simple Freedom of Information act request could uncover. But the problem is that a lot of times you don’t even know to ask for the information until you start digging deep and start finding out where the money is going.

And then you start to see what’s really happening out in these streets. Houston, I’m on y’all this year, Houston. I got a special place in my heart for y’all. I. .