Rizzo Services company history timeline

2007

She went to the Sterling Heights police in October 2007 anyway and was fired days later.

2008

“Mayor Kwame,” she answered, referring to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was still in office in 2008 but is now serving prison time for corruption.

A 2008 lawsuit in United States District Court paints a harrowing picture of one employee’s experience while working for Rizzo Environmental Services for more than six years.

2009

Clinton Township trustee Dean Reynolds was indicted last week on eight counts of bribery involving two companies, and accused of taking bribes totaling $70,000 since 2009 from companies that do business with the township.

2010

Clinton Township was looking to save money when it awarded Rizzo Environmental Services a three-year contract in 2010.

2012

After 15 years of using Republic Services for trash hauling, it switched to Rizzo in 2012 because it had the lowest bid for garbage, yard waste and recycling.

2014

The continuity between Rizzo and GFL USA was treated as an assurance, not a problem as GFL takes over the contract that Rizzo was awarded in February 2014.

Freitas was hired by Rizzo Environmental Services in early 2014 while serving on the Macomb Township board.

Rizzo’s largest customer is the City of Detroit, which privatized its garbage pickup in 2014 under then Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who said privatizing garbage collection would save Detroit about $15 million.

2015

In October 2015, Hicks delivered $50,000 cash to Chuck Rizzo, according to a plea deal.

In 2015, Harrison Township awarded a five-year contract for $1.18 million a year to Rizzo, which beat out Tringali and Waste Management in a bidding war.

2016

The money was for Reynolds helping secure an extension of a township trash contract in February 2016, according to court records.

Chuck Rizzo resigned from his namesake company in October 2016, the same month it was acquired by Toronto-based GFL Environmental Inc.

He was indicted in November 2016 and accused of taking $50,000 to $70,000 in cash from Rizzo in exchange for supporting the firm’s $3.5 million annual contract.

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