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February 15, 2020 By cs

State Dept. contracting officer sentenced to prison for bribery, fraud in procurement scheme

A contracting officer with the U.S. Department of State was sentenced yesterday (Feb. 14, 2020) to seven years and three months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, after he was convicted of 13 counts of conspiracy, bribery, honest services wire fraud, and making false statements.

Zaldy N. Sabino, 60, of Fort Washington, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady after Sabino’s conviction on Oct. 4, 2019.

In addition to his term of imprisonment, Sabino was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine.

According to the evidence at trial, between November 2012 and early 2017, Sabino and the owner of a Turkish construction firm engaged in a bribery and procurement fraud scheme in which Sabino received at least $521,862.93 in cash payments from the Turkish owner while Sabino supervised multi-million dollar construction contracts awarded to the Turkish owner’s business partners and while Sabino made over a half million dollars in structured cash deposits into his personal bank accounts.

Sabino concealed his unlawful relationship by, among other things, making false statements on financial disclosure forms and during his background reinvestigation.

The Department of State’s Office of Inspector General and the FBI’s Washington Field Office investigated the case.  The Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and the U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia prosecuted the case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state-department-contracting-officer-sentenced-prison-bribery-and-procurement-fraud-scheme

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: abuse, bribe, bribery, conspiracy, conviction, DOJ, false statements, fraud, Justice Dept., State Dept., waste, wire fraud

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