The FBI has ramped up its corruption investigation in Macomb County, this time charging a lawyer in a bribery scheme that brought down the Rizzo garbage empire last fall.

The defendant, attorney Angelo Selva, whose license was suspended for three years in 2005 over the mishandling of client funds, is the seventh person to be ensnared in the probe.

According to a charging document filed today, Selva is charged with misprision of a felony -- which means having knowledge of a crime, but hiding it from authorities and not reporting it "as soon as possible." Authorities allege that Selva knew about a bribery scheme between Clinton Township Trustee Dean Reynolds and two Rizzo officials -- an executive and a lawyer -- and concealed it from authorities.

The charging document does not name Rizzo, identifying it only as "Company A' -- but the Free Press has confirmed through multiple sources that "Company A" is Rizzo Environmental Services.

An attorney for Selva was not readily available for comment.

Selva was charged in what is known an "information," a charging document that typically suggests a defendant is planning to cut a deal.

Selva has been in legal turmoil before.

In 2005, the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board suspended Selva's license for three years after Selva pleaded no contest to allegations that he failed to act honestly in connection with escrow funds. According to the board, he released $5,000 to himself prior to fulfilling the conditions of agreements that were executed by his client and another business in two separate matters. He also allegedly failed to provide a full and fair answer to a request for investigation, board records show.

Selva was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution.

Today's charges come five days after a former Rizzo executive was charged with delivering cash bribes to two officials in exchange for helping his employer secure lucrative municipal contracts.

Quintin Ramanauskas, a former commercial manager who for years worked at Rizzo Environmental Services, was charged on May 18 with delivering cash bribes to two local officials — Reynolds and former Chesterfield Township Supervisor Michael Lovelock.

According to court documents, Ramanauskas left a $3,000 cash bribe for Reynolds to pick up on Nov. 5, 2015. The drop-off location was not disclosed.

Reynolds, 49, of Clinton Township was indicted in November on charges he helped Rizzo secure an $18-million contract extension — without going out to bid — in exchange for money and a free divorce lawyer.

According to the indictment, Reynolds took $50,000-plus in bribes from Rizzo, though it is not known who delivered all the money. Ramanauskas is charged with delivering only $3,000 of it. Reynolds is awaiting trial.

Ramanauskas also is accused of dropping off thousands of dollars in cash bribes to be picked up by former Chesterfield Township Supervisor Michael Lovelock, 57, who is charged with demanding $30,000 in bribes from Rizzo in exchange for favors. Those favors included approving a contract extension, promising not to bad-mouth Rizzo to other communities and helping Rizzo get paid for cleanup work.

Lovelock, 57, of New Baltimore, has cut a deal in the case and has a plea hearing set for June 1.

Ramanauskas is charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud.

He was the sixth person to be charged in the Macomb County probe since last fall, when the FBI announced a widespread investigation targeting pay-to-play schemes across the county. Out of the six individuals charged, four cut plea deals.

They are Macomb Township Trustee Clifford Freitas; former New Haven Trustee Christopher Craigmiles; who pleaded guilty in February to accepting a $5,000 bribe from an undercover agent in exchange for his vote on what he thought was a future Rizzo trash contract; former New Haven Trustee Brett Harris, who also pleaded guilty to bribery, admitting he took more than $11,000 from an undercover agent who was posing as a Rizzo official; and Lovelock.

Craigmiles and Harris will be sentenced June 8.

Rizzo is now owned by Toronto-based GFL Environmental, which purchased the company two weeks before the corruption scandal surfaced in federal court. GFL has long expressed frustration and outrage about the investigation, saying it had no idea that Rizzo was part of an FBI corruption investigation when it purchased the company.

Rizzo Environmental Services had trash contracts in more than 50 communities across metro Detroit before being dissolved by its new owner. Former Rizzo CEO Chuck Rizzo Jr. resigned amid the scandal last fall. He has not been charged with any crime.

The FBI's investigation has included telephone wiretaps, consensual audio and video recordings by cooperative individuals, undercover operations, physical surveillance, telephone tracking warrants and subpoenas of financial records and documents.

Tresa Baldas can be reached at tbaldas@freepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @Tbaldas.