Illustrative image: a 1925 Dodge wrecker tow truck on display in a museum. — Illustrative image. Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Tow Truck Business, Assignments Included

Price: nearly $50,000, as reported. Towing and impoundment work not sold separately.

Sold2019Local

about $50,000≈ €44.7KAs stated in the source: nearly $50,000

Already sold, to the owner of Able Towing, Inc. (pleaded guilty; the company was debarred by the D.C. government), in 2019. Nothing on Lobay is for sale.

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Seller

Role: city officials at the Department of Public Works and the Taxicab Commission
Institution: D.C. Department of Public Works; D.C. Taxicab Commission (now Department of For-Hire Vehicles)
Place: Washington, D.C.
Country: United States

Item specifics

Condition	Guilty plea; owner sentenced in 2019
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Seller	City officials, Dept. of Public Works and Taxicab Commission (unnamed)
Winning bidder	Able Towing, Inc. (owner)
Category	Transport (towing)
Returns	No returns. Owner: 16 months in prison (2019). Company debarred 2019–2024

Description

What the bribe bought

The payments got the owner's tow truck company towing and impoundment assignments. No dollar value for this is documented.

What happened

The owner of Able Towing, Inc., a D.C. tow truck business, paid city officials at the Department of Public Works and the D.C. Taxicab Commission nearly $50,000, according to The Washington Post. The owner pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and was sentenced in 2019 to 16 months in prison. The D.C. Office of Contracting and Procurement debarred Able Towing, Inc. from April 18, 2019 to April 18, 2024.

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Towing contractor hooked D.C. officials with $50,000 in bribes, he admits in court · The Washington Post · Archived copy

Official record

Excluded Parties List · DC Office of Contracting and Procurement

Shipping & returns

Authority	Kind	Amount	Year
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia	prison sentence (owner)	sentenced to 16 months in prison	2019
D.C. Office of Contracting and Procurement	debarment of the company (2019–2024)	Able Towing, Inc. … April 18, 2019 – April 18, 2024	2019