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Fired ECO Manager Sued For Fraud
by Bob Dunn, Oct 19, 04:41 pm

Janet E. Trentham, an ECO Resources client manager fired last month for allegedly scamming ECO’s clients out of at least $185,000, has been sued for fraud.

Sugar Land-based ECO manages and operates more than 120 municipal utility districts. One of them, First Colony MUD #9, filed suit against Trentham on Tuesday in Fort Bend County District Court.

The lawsuit alleges Trentham obtained more than $25,000 from the utility district through fraud, and seeks actual and punitive damages, an accounting of Trentham and all her financial records, interest on money taken by fraud, and attorney’s fees.

Trentham, of Missouri City, could not be reached for comment on this story.

According to the lawsuit, the utility district has an operations and management agreement with ECO under which ECO purchases supplies, material, provides labor, accounting and collecting services. The suit says ECO provides similar services to MUDS throughout Fort Bend and Harris counties.

Each of ECO’s MUD clients is assigned a client manager, the suit states, and for the past two years, Trentham was assigned to First Colony MUD #9 as client manager. In that capacity, she had access to various suppliers and laborers.

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