A bankruptcy trustee is suing U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx to claw back more than $420,000 a defunct bus maker paid Foxx for work he allegedly never performed, the Wall Street Journal reported today. Trustee Elaine Rudisill, who is overseeing efforts to recover money and assets for creditors of defunct North Carolina bus manufacturer DesignLine Corp., on Friday sued Foxx in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Charlotte. DesignLine filed for bankruptcy in August of 2013. According to the suit, DesignLine paid millions of dollars to two outside law firms for general legal counsel and other services at the time Foxx was employed as deputy general counsel. Foxx was also serving as the mayor of Charlotte at the time in question. DesignLine’s “books and records do not reflect any communications between [Mr. Foxx] and the outside firms, nor do they reflect any activities or actions of defendant in his role as deputy general counsel,” lawyers for Rudisill said in court papers.
