Summary

On January 18, 2013, Kevin Wirth Jannell, former Virginia Railway Express (VRE) employee, was sentenced in U.S. District Court, Alexandria, Virginia, to 24 months of incarceration followed by 2 years of supervised release for accepting more than $200,000 in bribes to ensure a VRE subcontractor would be retained by VRE.

The investigation revealed that from 2003 and continuing through March 2012, Jannell, a former facilities manager for VRE, agreed to take up to $4,000 each month in return for giving favorable evaluations that would ensure an individual and this person's company would be retained as a subcontractor for VRE.  Jannell concealed the bribes by creating a fraudulent company and sent monthly invoices to the subcontractor from that company, falsely billing the company for services that were never rendered.

This investigation was conducted jointly with the FBI.