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According to court documents filed in the federal corruption case of former Miramar City Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman, City Manager Robert Payton is named as one of the people who awarded contracts to undercover FBI agents who posed as shady contractors seeking city business. In 2006, Payton met with Salesman and one agent while Salesman was suspended from office, and reportedly told the agent that he would not get city business unless he "knew" someone. Payton went on to award the company several contracts for amounts less than his $50,000 discretionary limit. Payton is not charged in the case, but even if he isn't, at the very least he knowingly participated in cronyism, which should not be tolerated. There are also questions of why he met with a commissioner who was suspended from office. Payton is not talking, which is his right, but commissioners have a duty and public responsibility to demand an explanation, or relieve him from duty until he does.
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