I Hope Tammy Duckworth Get Ahold Of This Guy : - )

[carlie]

I hope Tammy Duckworth get ahold of this guy : - )

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

East Orange, New Jersey, VAMC Former Supervisory Engineer Pleads Guilty to

Fraud

A former supervisory engineer at the East Orange, NJ, VAMC pled guilty to a criminal

information containing a variety of fraud charges. An OIG, Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI), and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division

(CID) investigation revealed that the defendant accepted kickback payments in

connection with VA contracts awarded to companies he had relationships with and

engaged in a scheme to defraud VA by falsely claiming one of the companies was

owned by a service-disabled Veteran. The defendant also conspired with a partner to

set up three companies that could be used to obtain VA contracts and then directed

more than $6 million worth of VA construction projects to those companies, of which,

more than $3 million was paid to the falsely claimed service-disabled veteran-owned

small business. The defendant admitted to accepting approximately $1,275,000 in

kickbacks in exchange for his official action and influence between 2007 and 2012.

http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/highlights/VAOIG-highlights-201309.pdf