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January 11, 2016 By AMK

Former contracting official gets 30 months in prison for Iraq contract bribes

A former U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracting official was sentenced on Friday (January 8, 2016) to 30 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving U.S. government contracts in Iraq.

US DoD logoJames Edward Addas, 55, of Stafford, Virginia, previously pleaded guilty to charges of bribery and tax evasion.  Senior U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia handed down Addas’ sentence today.

According to admissions made in the plea agreement, in August 2004, Addas was a contracting official at the Iraq/Afghanistan Joint Contracting Command in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad when the owner and CEO of a contracting company based in Jordan offered to pay him a total of $1 million in return for assistance in obtaining U.S. government contracts for major electrical construction projects and related services in Iraq.

The contractor made an initial cash payment of $50,000 in a paper sack, which was handed to Addas inside the “Green Zone” of the U.S. Embassy compound.  With Addas’ assistance, the contractor’s companies subsequently received at least 15 contracts, with a total value of more than $28 million awarded to the companies.  In addition to the initial payment, the contractor later sent funds to Addas via wire transfers that totaled more than $455,000 and paid for other items valued at more than $70,000.  Addas did not declare any of this income on his filed federal tax returns.

Source: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-contracting-official-sentenced-30-months-bribery-relation-us-government-contracts-iraq

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: bribe, bribery, corruption, DoD, fraud, Iraq, tax evasion

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