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U.S. v. Stanley Mark Smith
U.S. v. Kevin Mahler
Kevin Mahler, a project manager at a government contractor, pleaded guilty to a six-count criminal information in January 2024 charging him with four counts of violating the anti-kickback act, one count of conspiracy, and one count of filing a false tax return. Mahler pleaded guilty to conspiring with Benjamin McCulloch, the owner of a commercial flooring company, to receive kickbacks flowing from artificially inflated construction proposals. This scheme affected government contracts for construction and flooring services at Fort Wainwright, a U.S. Army installation in Fairbanks, Alaska.
U.S. v. Asphalt Specialists LLC
U.S. v. Al’s Asphalt Paving Company, Inc. and Edward D. Swanson
Al’s Asphalt Paving Company, Inc. and Edward D. Swanson pleaded guilty to two counts of entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by agreeing to rig bids for contracts to provide asphalt paving services in the State of Michigan. Count One charged a conspiracy that began at least as early as March 2013 and continued until at least as late as November 2018. Count Two charged a separate conspiracy that began at least as early as June 2013 and continued until at least as late as June 2019.
U.S. v. Ike Tomlinson and Kris Bird
Following a court-authorized wiretap investigation, a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, returned an indictment in December 2023 charging two executives of competing companies with conspiring to rig bids and allocate territories in violation of the Sherman Act, conspiring to commit wire fraud and committing wire fraud. According to the seven-count felony indictment, Ike Tomlinson and Kris Bird’s conspiracy affected contracts for forest-firefighting services.
U.S. v. Roy Henry Heinrich
U.S. v. Bruce F. Israel
Bruce F. Israel pleaded guilty to two counts of entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by agreeing to rig bids for contracts to provide asphalt paving services in the State of Michigan. Count One charged a conspiracy that began at least as early as March 2013 and continued until at least as late as November 2018. Count Two charged a separate conspiracy that began at least as early as July 2017 and continued until at least as late as May 2021.
U.S. v. Ryan Ashley Sullivan
Plea Agreement (November 6, 2023)
Information (October 25, 2023)
U.S. v. Daniel L. Israel
Daniel L. Israel pleaded guilty to one count of entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by agreeing to rig bids for contracts to provide asphalt paving services in the state of Michigan. The Information charged a conspiracy that began at least as early as March 2013 and continued until at least as late as November 2018.
U.S. v. James Travis Feazel
James Travis Feazel pleaded guilty to violating 15 U.S.C. § 1 for his role in a scheme to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate jobs in the performance of erosion control projects throughout Oklahoma. As part of the conspiracy, which began as early as September 2017 and continued until as late as April 2023, Feazel and his co-conspirators, among other things, (1) agreed to allocate bids for erosion control contracts based on geographic delineations within the state of Oklahoma; (2) agreed not to compete for erosion control contracts by either submitting intentionally high-priced bids for jobs allocated to a different company or by declining to submit bids for such jobs altogether; (3) agreed to raise and maintain prices for solid slab sodding and other line items in erosion control contracts; and (4) took steps to conceal co-conspirator communications in furtherance of the conspiracy.
U.S. v. F. Allied Construction Company, Inc., et al.
F. Allied Construction Company, Inc., Andrew Foster, and Kevin Shell each pleaded guilty to two counts of entering into and engaging in a combination and conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition by agreeing to rig bids for contracts to provide asphalt paving services in the state of Michigan. Count One charged a conspiracy that began at least as early as June 2013 and continued until at least as late as June 2019. Count Two charged a separate conspiracy that began at least as early as July 2017 and continued until at least as late as May 2021.
U.S. v. J & J Korea, Inc.
South Korean company J&J Korea, Inc. pleaded guilty and was sentenced for its role in a bid-rigging and fraud scheme involving repair and maintenance subcontract work at U.S military hospitals in South Korea. The subcontract work related to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) contract providing for operation and maintenance support services at U.S. military facilities around the world. The contract required the prime contractor to use a competitive bidding process when awarding subcontract work under the contract. However, the defendant and its co-conspirator, another South Korean company, agreed to submit rigged bids to ensure that the defendant won most of the subcontract work in South Korea under the USACE contract.