IT contractors arrested after tricking US government out of millions

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The US Department of Justice has shared specifications of 2 abstracted instances of fraud against nan authorities relating to nan overpriced waste of IT services and contracts arsenic portion of its ongoing investigation into IT manufacturers, distributors and resellers.

A Baltimore national expansive assemblage has returned indictments against 2 of nan six defendants and charged nan different four.

The fraudsters were accused of targeting cardinal authorities agencies, including nan Department of Defense (DoD) and nan intelligence community.

Six individuals charged complete defrauding US government

The first of nan two, Victor M Marquez, was charged pinch ligament fraud conspiracy, ligament fraud and awesome fraud. The Maryland-based IT institution proprietor and 2 of his associates allegedly created “determined, non-competitive and non-independent” bids to guarantee that Marquez’s unnamed institution could win.

Marquez was accused of ligament fraud conspiracy (worth up to 20 years successful prison), ligament fraud (adding different 20 years) and awesome fraud (accounting for 10 years’ situation time) by nan national expansive jury.

In a abstracted incident, Breal L Madison Jr was charged pinch conspiracy, bribery of a nationalist official, message fraud and money laundering, defrauding his employer and nan US authorities retired of much than $7 cardinal alongside 2 of his associates.

Madison hid overmuch of his money down 2 ammunition companies; nan DoJ added that he besides funded a luxury yacht, a Lamborghini and respective different vehicles pinch nan money.

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Madison faces situation sentences of up to 5 years for nan conspiracy count, 15 years for each bribery count, 20 years for each message fraud count and 10 years for each money laundering count.

The DoJ did not stock circumstantial specifications astir nan quality of nan fraud, including statement specifications and parties affected.