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Two Corrupt Defense Contractors Get Prison

By Forseti | Filed in Civilian Contractors, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests
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(Courthouse News) – SAN DIEGO -  May 21, 2013 – Two defense contractors were sentenced Monday to 3 years in federal prison for conspiring to steal $7 million from the United States.

Two people and a corporation were sentenced for “a fraud and corruption scheme” at , in Coronado, near San Diego, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

, 46, of Coronado, owner and president of Poway defense contractor , was sentenced to 3 years in prison and ordered to pay $760,000 in restitution to the Navy.

, 52, of La Jolla, owner and president of Poway defense contractor , was sentenced to 3 years in prison and ordered to pay $300,000 in restitution to the Navy.

Loehr’s company, Centerline, was ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution.

A jury convicted them in February of conspiracy and bribery.

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Mitchell Potts & Jeffrey Philpot plead guilty to receiving bribes at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany

By Forseti | Filed in Civilian Contractors, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests
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Georgia Men Plead Guilty to Receiving Bribes  in Transportation Scheme at Local Military Base

(DoJ) – May 8, 2013 – Two former employees at the have pleaded guilty to receiving bribes related to a scheme to funnel freight hauling business to a local transportation company resulting in the loss of millions of dollars to the United States government, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia.

, 48, and , 35, both of Sylvester, Ga., each pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge W. Louis Sands in the Middle District of Georgia to one count of bribery of a public official.

During their guilty pleas, Potts, the former Traffic Office Supervisor for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) at MCLB-Albany, and Philpot, the former Lead Transportation Assistant in the Traffic Office, admitted to participating in a scheme whereby Potts and Philpot assisted Person A, the owner of several local commercial trucking companies, in obtaining trucking business from the DLA in exchange for the payment of cash and other things of value.  Both defendants admitted that they took a variety of steps Read the remainder of this entry »

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Former DHS employee Derek Matthews pleads guilty accepting bribes

By Forseti | Filed in GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests
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Former Regional Director of Federal Protective Service  Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes from Government Contractor

(DoJ) – April 11, 2013 – , 46, of Harwood, Md., pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes from a government contracting company in exchange for using his position to help the company find and win contracts.

Neil H. MacBride, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Mythili Raman, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Charles K. Edwards, U.S. Department of Homeland Security () Deputy Inspector General, made the announcement after the plea was accepted by U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema.

Matthews was charged by criminal information on April 11, 2013, with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery.  Matthews faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison when he is sentenced on July 19, 2013.

Matthews served as Deputy Assistant Director for Operations for the DHS’s and was later promoted to FPS Regional Director for the National Capital Region.  In the fall of 2011, Matthews agreed with , an executive at an Arlington, Va., security service consulting company referred to as Company B in court records, that in exchange for a monthly payment Read the remainder of this entry »

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SPC (former) Stephanie Charboneau indicted for being in cahoots with Fluor employee on fuel thefts in Afghanistan

By Forseti | Filed in Civilian Contractors, Fluor, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, LOGCAP-Fluor, U.S. Army
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Former Army Soldier Indicted on Bribery and Related Charges for Facilitating Thefts of Fuel in Afghanistan

(DoJ) – April 11, 2013 – , aka , 34, of Fountain, Colo., formerly a Specialist in the United States Army, has been indicted in the District of Colorado for her alleged role in assisting the thefts of fuel in Afghanistan and laundering the proceeds of crime, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Criminal Division announced.

According to the indictment returned on April 9, 2013, and now filed publicly, Charboneau was assigned to Forward Operating Base (FOB) Fenty, in eastern Afghanistan, as part of the 704th Brigade Support Battalion.  Her duties included overseeing the movement of fuel by private Afghan trucking companies from to nearby military bases.  The indictment alleges that Charboneau conspired with Sergeant Christopher Weaver, her supervisor, and , a civilian employee of FLUOR Inc., to facilitate the theft of fuel for money.  Charboneau and her co-conspirators allegedly received money from a representative of an Afghan trucking company to enable that company to steal truckloads of fuel.  The conspirators allegedly authorized the movement of truckloads of fuel from FOB Fenty – ostensibly to nearby bases – knowing and intending that when the fuel left FOB Fenty it would never reach the designated base and would instead be stolen.  These events occurred from approximately February 2010 through approximately May of 2010.

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Wajdi Birjas sentenced to 35 months for crimes committed at Camp Arifjan

By Forseti | Filed in Civilian Contractors, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests
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Former Defense Department Contract Employee Sentenced to 35 Months  in Prison for Participating in Corruption Scheme at in Kuwait

To Date, 19 Individuals Have Pleaded Guilty or Been Convicted at Trial in Ongoing Corruption Investigation

(DoJ) – April 2, 2013 – A former contract employee of the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) was sentenced today to serve 35 months in prison for his participation in a bribery and money laundering scheme arising from corruption in the award of defense contracts at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

, 41, of Evansville, Ind., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young in the Southern District of Indiana.  In addition to his prison term, Birjas was sentenced to serve three years of supervised release and ordered to forfeit $650,000.

Birjas pleaded guilty on Aug. 11, 2010, to one count of bribery conspiracy and one count of money laundering conspiracy.

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