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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2004
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THIRD DEFENDANT IN ONGOING CHICAGO GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION PROBE SENTENCED


WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray of the Criminal Division, Thomas Kneir, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the FBI, and Harvey G. Florian, General Services Administration Regional Inspector General, announced that former GSA contractor Terrence Kulick was sentenced to 15 months in prison and three years supervised release for his role in a bribery scheme involving the awarding of GSA contracts at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois.

Kulick was sentenced by the Honorable Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, at federal court in Chicago. Kulick was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and $7,000 in restitution.

Kulick had previously pled guilty to bribery and admitted that he provided plumbing supplies, including copper pipes and toilets, a furnace and a central air-conditioning unit, to a GSA supervisor in exchange for favorable treatment in the award of GSA contracts. The supervisor would typically direct Kulick to falsely bill the supplies to GSA as valves, an item routinely purchased by GSA.

The GSA contracts case resulted from a five-year undercover investigation in which numerous consensual recordings were made of GSA officials and contractors by cooperating GSA employees. The investigation is continuing.

Sixteen defendants have been charged to date in the investigation, and Kulick is the third to be sentenced. The other guilty pleas to date include:

The two defendant previously sentenced are:

The other defendants charged in the investigation are:

The prosecution is being handled by Trial Attorneys Alison Van Horn and Peter Zeidenberg of the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., headed by Noel L. Hillman, Chief, with the assistance of Assistant United States Attorney Dean Polales of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois; the remainder of the United States Attorney’s Office is recused from this investigation. The investigation is being conducted jointly by the Chicago Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Chicago Zone Investigations Office of the General Services Administration Office of Inspector General. U.S. Marshal Kim R. Widup and the Marshals Service in Chicago also cooperated in the investigation.

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