Mr. James D. Dannenbaum This is Me

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1. 1. Board Member Bios - Greater Houston Partnership

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   Published on: 5/15/2008   Last Visited: 5/15/2008

   James D. Dannenbaum - Chairman, Dannenbaum Engineering Corporation

2. 2. www.elpasotimes.com

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   Published on: 10/26/2007   Last Visited: 10/26/2007

   James Dannenbaum, owner of Houston-based Dannenbaum Engineering Corp., was appointed by Gov. Rick Perry last week to the governing board of the state's largest university system.
   
   Public records indicate that Dannenbaum, his company or some of his employees may be among the 17 unnamed co-conspirators in an ongoing FBI investigation of public corruption, in which elected officials allegedly took money in exchange for promises to award vendors contracts.
   
   No one affiliated with the Dannenbaum corporation has been charged with any wrongdoing.
   
   Campaign finance records further show that Dannenbaum himself gave thousands of dollars to El Paso County public officials also listed as co-conspirators in the case
   
   Dannenbaum said the FBI has not contacted him in connection with the El Paso investigation, and he denied that his company is named in FBI legal filings.
   
   "Our firm has been in continuous operations since 1945," Dannenbaum said.
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   Less than two months before that meeting, Texas Ethics Commission records show, Dannenbaum gave Cobos $2,000.
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   An organization called Fund for the Future, which uses the same address as Dannenbaum, gave Teran $1,000 in March.
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   Dannenbaum was the only company to make a presentation, though a contract was not awarded.
   
   At the meeting, Dannenbaum's two representatives told the Commissioners Court that their company would work closely with Duran's company, Mega Services.
   
   Dannenbaum said that his company has worked with Duran on projects in the Rio Grande Valley, but that the company has no contractual or other business relationships with Duran in relation to El Paso.
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   Dannenbaum said he was not told contributing would help his company get the flood-planning contract.
   
   "Absolutely not," he said. "There's never any linkage between contracts and helping people that ask for help with their campaign."
   
   Dannenbaum is also under investigation in Cameron County in relation to an unfinished bridge project.
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   Dannenbaum said a civil suit in that case had been settled already and that one elected official who "is trying to create publicity for himself continues to make untrue statements."
   
   Work on that project, he said, has resumed.
   
   Dannenbaum said his lawyers had informed him the investigation found no wrongdoing on the part of his company.
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   Dannenbaum has given Perry's campaign $187,500 since 2000.

3. 3. Restaurantville.com - TRA News

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   Published on: 11/9/2005   Last Visited: 2/28/2008

   James D. Dannenbaum of Houston is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Dannenbaum Engineering Corporation. During his time with the company, he has served progressively as a design engineer, associate, executive vice president and in 1972, became president. Dannenbaum is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Consulting Engineers Council of Texas, Inc., and the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. He is a member and former finance committee chair of the UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Chaplaincy Fund Board. Dannenbaum is chairman of the Texas Cancer Council and is a member of The Chancellor's Council of The University of Texas System. Dannenbaum received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
   
   Prentice L Gary of Dallas is managing partner of Carleton Residential Properties, a position he has held since founding the firm in 1991. Before that, Gary was a division partner for Trammell Crow Residential Co. from 1986 to 1991, where he oversaw the acquisition, financing, development, construction, asset management, and property management of more than 6,000 multifamily housing units. From 1978 to 1985, he was vice president and corporate controller for Fox & Jacobs, Inc. He started his career as an investment banker with Piper Jaffray, and he also is a former division president with the Centex Corp. Gary is active in civic organizations, having served on the Dallas Citizens Council, Southwestern Medical Foundation and the North Texas Tollway Authority. He currently serves on the board of C.C. Young, Inc., a multiple service retirement organization in Texas, and the National Equity Fund, Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Carleton College, where he currently serves as a trustee, and a MBA degree from Harvard University.