Title: Former Government Employee and Government Contractor Indicted in $53 Million Procurement Fraud and Illegal Gratuities Scheme | USAO-MD | Department of Justice
Headings: Former Government Employee and Government Contractor Indicted in $53 Million Procurement Fraud and Illegal Gratuities Scheme
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Former Government Employee and Government Contractor Indicted in $53 Million Procurement Fraud and Illegal Gratuities Scheme
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Content: For example, according to the indictment, Shank, Wilkerson, and Co-Conspirator 2 developed a request for proposal (RFP) for DO27, a contract to supply labor services for an Air Force technology project, including for overall project management services, so that AC4S would win the contract. On June 10, 2010, DO27 was awarded to AC4S in the amount of $18,332,738.10. Wilkerson provided Co-Conspirator 2 with a quote for labor on behalf of SCSI that was less than the quote he had previously submitted on behalf of Iron Bow as their sales representative. After SCSI was selected as a subcontractor on DO27, it subcontracted with Iron Bow to provide most of the labor SCSI was supposed to provide under DO27. Wilkerson was able to earn income from the work Iron Bow employees were doing by having SCSI act as a middleman and charging a mark-up on Iron Bow’s work. Wilkerson and Co-Conspirator 2 then directed an SCSI employee to create false invoices supposedly documenting the hours SCSI employees spent working on DO27, which were submitted to AC4S and paid by the United States government. SCSI received $6,794,432.98 on DO27 out of the $18 million AC4S received for providing labor for the project. Shank also initiated the procurement process on more than 11 delivery orders that purchased telecommunications equipment and furniture as part of the Air Force project. Those delivery orders were issued to Iron Bow in 2010 and 2011. Shank made sure that the delivery orders included telecommunications equipment and/or furniture that were assigned SCSI-specific part numbers, thereby guaranteeing that SCSI would receive revenue from the delivery orders.