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.

Sept. 11, 2015

Area Government Contractor Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges

St. Louis, MO – James Matthew Alexander, the President of a local defense contractor, pled guilty to a scheme to defraud the United States related to the construction of shipping containers for use with the F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft.

Sept. 11, 2015

Scientists Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding The Small Business Innovation Research Program

Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Mahmoud Aldissi (a/k/a Matt) and Anastassia Bogomolova (a/k/a Anastasia) for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and falsification of records. Aldissi was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and Bogomolova was sentenced to a term of 13 years. As part of their sentences, the court entered a money judgment in the amount of $10.6 million, representing the proceeds of the crime, and ordered them to pay $10.6 million in restitution. Aldissi and Bogomolova were found guilty on March 20, 2015.

Sept. 10, 2015

Two Contractors and One Former Civilian Employee Sentenced in Bribery Scheme at Georgia Military Base

WASHINGTON - A former civilian employee and a former contractor of the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia, as well as one outside contractor were sentenced today to prison terms for bribery and fraud arising from their handling of military trucking contracts and theft of surplus military equipment.

Aug. 24, 2015

Former USAF Captain Sentenced for Violating Restrictions on Post-Government Employment and Making a False Statement to Federal Authorities

SIOUX CITY, IOWA - A former Captain in the United States Air Force (USAF) who served in 2010 as a U.S. military contracting officer representative in Afghanistan, was sentenced last Thursday in United States District Court in Sioux City, Iowa, after having earlier pleaded guilty to violating restrictions on post-government employment and making a false statement to law enforcement agents, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa.