National Procurement Fraud Task Force (NPFTF)

National Procurement Fraud Task Force (NPFTF)

ssistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer

Lanny A. Breuer
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division

On October 10, 2006, the National Procurement Fraud Task Force was created to promote the prevention, early detection, and prosecution of procurement fraud. Chaired by Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, the Task Force members include the FBI, the Department of Justice Inspector General and other federal Inspectors General, defense investigative agencies, federal prosecutors from United States Attorneys offices across the country, as well as the Antitrust, Civil, Criminal, Environmental & Natural Resources, National Security, and Tax Divisions of the Department of Justice. The Task Force focuses on civil and criminal enforcement where it has the greatest effect, including defective pricing, product substitution, misuse of classified and procurement sensitive information, false claims, grant fraud, labor mischarging, fraud involving foreign military sales, ethics and conflict of interest violations, and public corruption associated with procurement fraud.

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August 21, 2009
Former Military Contractor Sentenced for Participating in Scheme to Steal Large Quantities of Fuel from U.S. Army in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - Raschad L. "Sean" Lewis, a former fuel section employee of Kellogg Brown and Root Inc. (KBR) assigned to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role in a bribery and a fuel diversion scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia. U.S. District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema also ordered Lewis to pay $891,000 in restitution and serve three years of supervised release.
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August 17, 2009
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges U.S. Army Captain with Accepting Bribes While Stationed in Iraq

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), Brigadier General RODNEY L. JOHNSON, Commanding General of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command ("CID"), and SHARON E. WOODS, the Director of the United States Department of Defense's Defense Criminal Investigative Service ("DCIS"), announced today that U.S. Army Captain BRYANT WILLIAMS was charged in an Indictment for allegedly steering more than $500,000 in U.S. Army contracts to favored contractors in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars in bribe payments while he was stationed in Baghdad, Iraq. WILLIAMS, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee, surrendered this morning to federal authorities in Manhattan, and is expected to be presented and arraigned later today before United States Magistrate Judge JAMES C. FRANCIS, IV.
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August 13, 2009
Dynamics Research Corporation to Pay $15 Million to Resolve Allegations of Kickbacks and False Claims Related to Air Force Contracts

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC), a defense contractor based in Andover, Mass., has agreed to pay the United States $15 million plus interest to settle allegations that two of its former executives engaged in a fraudulent kickback scheme in connection with two technical services contracts with the Air Force.
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