Former Department Of Veterans Affairs Official Sentenced To Serve 60 Months In Prison

[carlie]

“Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Former Department of Veterans Affairs Official Sentenced to Serve 60 Months in Prison for Conspiracy and Wire Fraud

Spouse and Company Also Sentenced for Their Roles in Scheme

WASHINGTON — The former associate director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy in Hines, Ill., his wife and their temporary staffing company were sentenced today for their participation in a conspiracy to defraud the VA and the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Justice announced.

William J. Brandt, the associate director of the VA facility from 1996 until April 2007, his wife, Esperanza A. Brandt, and Pronto Staffing Inc. were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Chicago by Judge Milton I. Shadur. William Brandt was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison and Esperanza Brandt was sentenced to serve 24 months of probation. The Brandts and Pronto Staffing were also sentenced to pay $400,000 in restitution jointly and severally.”

Full Press Release :

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/March/12-at-294.html

[Pete53]

They should rot in jail. At least with Feds they serve most of their time.