DoD IG Information Releases
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Area Government Contractor Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges
St. Louis, MO – James Matthew Alexander, the President of a local defense contractor, pled guilty to a scheme to defraud the United States related to the construction of shipping containers for use with the F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. |
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Scientists Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding The Small Business Innovation Research Program
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Mahmoud Aldissi (a/k/a Matt) and Anastassia Bogomolova (a/k/a Anastasia) for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and falsification of records. Aldissi was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and Bogomolova was sentenced to a term of 13 years. As part of their sentences, the court entered a money judgment in the amount of $10.6 million, representing the proceeds of the crime, and ordered them to pay $10.6 million in restitution. Aldissi and Bogomolova were found guilty on March 20, 2015. |
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Two Contractors and One Former Civilian Employee Sentenced in Bribery Scheme at Georgia Military Base
WASHINGTON - A former civilian employee and a former contractor of the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia, as well as one outside contractor were sentenced today to prison terms for bribery and fraud arising from their handling of military trucking contracts and theft of surplus military equipment. |
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Former USAF Captain Sentenced for Violating Restrictions
on Post-Government Employment and Making a False Statement to Federal Authorities
SIOUX CITY, IOWA - A former Captain in the United States Air Force (USAF) who served in 2010 as a U.S. military contracting officer representative in Afghanistan, was sentenced last Thursday in United States District Court in Sioux City, Iowa, after having earlier pleaded guilty to violating restrictions on post-government employment and making a false statement to law enforcement agents, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa. |
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Polezero Corporation Agrees To Pay $2.8 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Department of Defense contractor PoleZero Corporation, owned by Dover Corporation since 2007, has agreed to pay the United States $2,800,000 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company caused false claims to be submitted to the Department of Air Force for communications equipment. |
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Former Army Pharmacy Specialist Pleads Guilty To Stealing Drugs From Walter Reed Hospital
Lamelle Marquez Malone, age 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, formerly of Columbia, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal prescription drugs from a military hospital and to interstate transportation of stolen property. |
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Former Intelligence Agency Official Pleads Guilty to Lying to Federal Agents
Brian P. Hearing, 43, of Falls Church, Virginia, a former official with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), pleaded guilty today to lying to federal investigators to conceal his ownership of a private company he was inappropriately using his official position to promote. |
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Fresno Man Sentenced for Extensive Fraudulent Bonding Scheme and Aggravated Identity Theft
FRESNO, Calif. - Abel Martin Carreon, 57, of Fresno, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to five years and five months in prison for one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Carreon was also ordered to pay $1,253,000 in restitution. |
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Medical Device Manufacturer Nuvasive Inc.To Pay $13.5 Million To Settle False Claims Act Allegations
California-based medical device manufacturer NuVasive Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $13.5 million to resolve allegations that the company caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs for spine surgeries by marketing the company’s CoRoent System for surgical uses that were not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The settlement further resolves allegations that NuVasive caused false claims by paying kickbacks to induce physicians to use the company’s CoRoent System. |
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Husband And Wife Admit To Procurement Fraud Scheme And To Embezzling Employee Benefits
Shaun Tucker, a/k/a “Shawn Turner,” and “Mark Tyler,” age 49, and his wife, Joanne Tucker, a/k/a “Joanne Krcma,” “Jill Swanson,” and “Jocelyn Turner,” age 50, both of Keymar, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges in connection with defrauding the United States of over $30 million in connection with obtaining government contracts, stealing over $1.6 million in employee benefits and evading taxes. |
Last updated: September 11, 2015 / 832 Records