Gene Conti
Eugene A. "Gene" Conti, Jr. (born December 23, 1946) is an American government official. He served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation from 1995 through 1998, when he became Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy at the United States Department of Transportation.
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 Secretary Gene Conti speaking during a locomotive christening in 2011 | |
| Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation | |
| In office 1995–1998 |
In 2009, then-Governor-elect Beverly Perdue named Conti as the new Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, where he served until January, 2013, and was succeeded in that post by Tony Tata.[1] He had served as deputy secretary for that department from 2001 through 2003. [2]
Used his Secretary of Transportation position to influence A land acquisition contractor to give him a lucrative position in their company when he left his post.