Dive summary:
- A former Corps of Engineers employee who admitted rigging bids for work in Iraq to go to companies linked to a British citizen and an Iraqi was able to pull in at least $3.7 million in bribes in less than a year in 2007 and 2008, the Department of Justice said.
- John Alfy Salama Markus was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a federal judge in New Jersey and fined $75,000 and agreed to a judgment of $3.7 million, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, said.
- The Justice Department said Markus got bid and pricing information to companies bidding on work for the Corps and was paid, including $2 million he received for a $19.6 million pipeline contract.
From the article:
The contracts were awarded to companies associated with Ahmed Nouri, a British citizen and former vice president of Iraqi Consultants and Construction Bureau, and Mithaq Al-Fahal, an Iraqi citizen and a senior project manager at Sakar Al-Fahal....