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March 28, 2017 By AMK

GSA employee, husband guilty in hiring scheme

A former General Services Administration contracting director pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges in a scheme to get her husband federal and private contracting jobs.

Helen Renee Ballard, 51, and Robert Ballard, 56, of Brandywine, Md, pleaded guilty on March 23, 2017 to a charge of conspiracy to make false statements to the federal government. An additional 11 counts, including charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and making false statements, were dropped in a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

Renee Ballard, a former director of GSA’s Central Office Contracting Division, admitted to helping her husband Robert get jobs at a federal contractor working for GSA by pumping up his resume and manipulating the hiring process to get the highest salaries possible, according to court documents. She also shopped her husband’s falsely augmented resume around to other federal agency human resources departments.

Keep reading this article at: https://fcw.com/articles/2017/03/24/gsa-nepotism-guilty-rockwell.aspx

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: conspiracy, corruption, DOJ, FBI, fraud, GSA, identity theft, nepotism

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