Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed is appointing Donald Watkins Jr. as the city’s new Small Business Development Director.

According to the Montgomery Personnel Board , Reed is requesting the board approve his appointment of Watkins Jr. at a salary of $120,960 at an upcoming meeting.

Watkins Jr. and his father, Donald Watkins, were convicted in 2019 for running a “complex investment fraud scheme by which they stole more than $10 million over the course of seven years,” according to the DOJ .

Watkins Jr. was convicted of one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy. He was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution jointly with his father in the amount of $13,850,000.

A Reed spokesman told Yellowhammer News in 2019 that Watkins Jr. was a “

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