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Guilty Plea in Transit Authority Bid-Rigging Case

Summary

James Vickers, Senior Vice President of Purconn Unlimited, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Austin, TX to charges of conspiring with an employee of the Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority (CMTA) to win a $12,937 contract for developing a policies and procedures manual for CMTA. Vickers paid the CMTA employee to ensure that he was the only bidder and then provided CMTA with a finished product that was a plagiarized copy of the Dallas Rapid Transit Authority Manual. OIG investigated this case with the FBI.