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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