Oct. 22, 2015

Twenty-Five Individuals Indicted for Wire Fraud

Twenty-five individuals have been charged in 14 separate indictments for their alleged participation in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and the National Guard Bureau of money and property, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico.

Oct. 20, 2015

Missouri Woman Sentenced for Defrauding Service- Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Program

A Missouri woman was sentenced Tuesday to 20 months in federal prison for defrauding a federal program that set aside contracts for businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, she was ordered to pay a $30,000 money judgment.

Oct. 19, 2015

Former Augusta Moving Company Manager Found Guilty of Fraud

Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that former Covan World Wide Moving, Inc., manager Ronald James Niemi, Jr., age 45, of Wesley Chapel, Florida, has been convicted of Mail Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341, after a five-day trial in Columbia that concluded Monday. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., of Columbia presided over the trial and will sentence Niemi at a later date.

Oct. 14, 2015

Boeing Pays $18 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

The Boeing Company has paid the United States $18 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims for labor charges on maintenance contracts with the U.S. Air Force for the C-17 Globemaster aircraft, the Justice Department announced today. Boeing, an aerospace and defense industry giant, is headquartered in Chicago.

Oct. 9, 2015

Virginia Businessman Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison For Role in Bribery Scheme Involving Government Contracts

Young N. Cho, also known as Alex Cho, 43, of Great Falls, Va., has been sentenced to 88 months in prison on federal charges stemming from a bribery scheme in which he paid millions of dollars in bribes to corrupt public officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in return for lucrative government contracts.

Oct. 8, 2015

UFC and Davis Admit that UFC Was Never a “Woman-Owned Small Business” and Pay $20 Million

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Melvin F. Williams, Jr., General Counsel of the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”), Peggy E. Gustafson, SBA Inspector General, and Craig W. Rupert, Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (“DCIS”), announced today that the United States has filed, and simultaneously settled, a civil fraud lawsuit against UFC AEROSPACE LLC (“UFC”) and DOUGLAS B. DAVIS, the former president of UFC, for engaging in fraudulent conduct in violation of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 632(n), in order to secure numerous lucrative defense subcontracts with government contractors.

Oct. 6, 2015

Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 37 Months in Prison for Trafficking Counterfeit Military Goods

A Massachusetts man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for importing thousands of counterfeit integrated circuits (ICs) from China and Hong Kong and reselling them to U.S. customers, including contractors supplying them to the U.S. Navy for use in nuclear submarines.

Sept. 22, 2015

Former U.S. Army Specialist Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Taking Bribes While Deployed In Afghanistan

A former specialist with the U.S. Army stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gardez, Afghanistan, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for accepting a $20,000 bribe from a truck driver in exchange for allowing him to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base.

Sept. 18, 2015

Department Of Defense Employee Sentenced To Over Three Years In Prison For Fraudulently Obtaining Over $750,000 From Contracts With Aberdeen Proving Ground

U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Mark Nixon, age 54, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 42 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to defraud the United States by steering federal contracts to a company in which he secretly held a financial interest. Judge Garbis also entered an order requiring Nixon to pay restitution of $750,000.

Sept. 15, 2015

Canton man sentenced to prison, ordered to repay $6.7 million, for fraud in getting federal contracts

A Canton man was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to repay $6.7 million for making false representations about the company’s office location so it could obtain a HUBZone certification and qualify for federal contracts, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.