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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.
U.S. v. Eduardo Ruben Lopez
On September 6, 2023, a federal grand jury in Las Vegas returned a superseding indictment charging Eduardo Lopez, a health care staffing executive, with conspiring to fix the wages of Las Vegas nurses — and then fraudulently concealing that conspiracy and the government’s investigation so that he could sell his company for over $10 million. Count one of the superseding indictment charges Lopez and other unnamed co-conspirators with agreeing to suppress and eliminate competition for the services of nurses between March 2016 and May 2019. Counts two through six of the superseding indictment charge Lopez with wire fraud. According to the superseding indictment, in December 2021, Lopez sold his health care staffing company for over $10 million and falsely represented to the buyer of his company that federal law enforcement was not investigating him or his company. But, according to court documents, Lopez knew that was false. FBI special agents had questioned Lopez, served Lopez with a grand jury subpoena addressed to his company and seized his cell phone pursuant to a search warrant.
U.S. v. Timour Abramov, et al.
On February 13, Marina Yaniuk and Dzmitry Yaniuk pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, defrauding the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”) and manipulating bids that were let by the MTA’s Asset Recovery Unit in connection with excess vehicles sold on the MTA’s online public auction website. The conspiracy began as early as November 2019 and continued until at least February 2021.
U.S. v. Dwayne A. Johnson
On February 15, Dwayne Johnson, a former salesman for two digital interactive whiteboard companies pleaded guilty to orchestrating a bid rigging conspiracy involving the sales of certain brands of digital interactive whiteboards that were made to the New York City Department of Education for use in New York City public schools.
U.S. v. Carlos Favian Martinez, et al.
According to the indictment, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Carlos Favian Martinez, 36, of Mission, Texas; Marco Antonio Medina, 32, of Brownsville, Texas; Rigoberto Brown, 38, of Brownsville, Texas; Pedro Antonio Calvillo Hernandez, 47, of Tamaulipas, Mexico; Roberto Garcia Villareal, 56, of San Benito, Texas; Miguel Hipolito Caballero Aupart, 70, of Brownsville, Texas; Sandra Guerra Medina, 68, of Rancho Viejo, Texas; and Mireya Miranda, 56, of La Feria, Texas, conspired to fix prices and allocate the market for transmigrante services in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. They also allegedly conspired to monopolize the same market in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act. The indictment alleges they implemented price-fixing agreements and created a centralized entity known as “The Pool” to collect and divide revenues among the conspirators. Transmigrantes are individuals who transport used vehicles and other goods from the United States through Mexico for resale in Central America. Transmigrante forwarding agencies are businesses that provide services to transmigrante clients, including helping those clients complete the customs paperwork required to export vehicles into Mexico.
U.S. v. Bill R. Miller
U.S. v. Nathan Nephi Zito
U.S. v. Benjamin W. McCulloch
Benjamin McCulloch, the owner of a commercial flooring company, pleaded guilty to a five-count criminal information in September 2022, charging him with four counts of violating the anti-kickback act and one count of conspiracy. McCulloch pleaded guilty to conspiring with a project manager, Kevin Mahler, to pay 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.