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October 13, 2016 By AMK

Ex-NASA official pleads guilty to lying about contractor moonlighting

A former contract supervisor at NASA pleaded guilty to making false statements about his self-interested interactions with contractors, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

nasaNathaniel Wright, 55, who worked full-time in the space agency’s software engineering division at the Goddard Space Flight Center, acknowledged to a Maryland district judge that he moonlighted as a contract employee for a friend’s small business that did work for several agencies. Wright also helped that business submit contract bids to other agencies during the period of 2009 through 2012 when his NASA responsibilities included work on an $800 million contract, a $450 million contract and a $1.2 billion contract.

According to the plea deal based on the NASA inspector general’s investigation, Wright admitted that he provided his resume to one of the contractors and said that he was looking for a position with their company. He “suggested that he would wait to consider the contractor’s proposals until a position had been considered,” a Justice statement said. “Wright also admitted that he pressed a contractor to use his friend’s business to perform work on a specific task order, even though that businesses had no experience in the area.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2016/10/ex-nasa-official-pleads-guilty-lying-about-contractor-moonlighting/132192

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition workforce, conflict of interest, ethics, false statements, moonlighting, NASA

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