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January 18, 2021 By cs

Former Army contractor executive sentenced for role in bribery and kickback schemes

An former executive of a government contractor has been sentenced for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme where he paid bribes to secure U.S. Army contracts.

John Winslett of Bristol, Rhode Island, was sentenced on Jan. 15th to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.

According to court documents and information presented in court, Winslett admitted he paid over $100,000 worth of bribes, between 2011 and 2018, to two U.S. Army contracting officials who worked at the Range at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

The bribes included cash, automobiles, and firearms.  In return, Army contracting officials used their positions by awarding $19 million in U.S. Army contracts to Winslett’s employer.

Winslett further admitted that he accepted $723,333 in kickbacks from a local subcontractor in exchange for Winslett assigning those contracts to that local subcontractor.

Army-CID, DCIS and the FBI investigated this case.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-government-contractor-sentenced-role-bribery-and-kickback-scheme

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: abuse, ACID, acquisition workforce, Army, bribe, bribery, contracting officers, corruption, DCIS, DOJ, FBI, fraud, Justice Dept., kickback, Schofield Barracks

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