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U.S. v. Jacqueline Hudson Amole
U.S and Plaintiff States v. Apple Inc.
U.S. v. Ashok Saxena
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. and Plaintiff States v. National Collegiate Athletic Association
U.S. v. Charles Ferrell Trimm
Charles Ferrell Trimm pleaded guilty to two counts of violating 15 U.S.C. § 1 for his role in a scheme to suppress and eliminate competition by rigging bids to obtain procurements for sports equipment and related services for schools in the Southern District of Mississippi and elsewhere. As part of these conspiracies, which began as early as August 2020 and continued until as late as February 2023, Trimm and his co-conspirators, among other things, (1) agreed in advance of some bids which co-conspirator would win the bid; (2) agreed to provide and submit complementary bids (that is, intentionally higher-priced bids) to schools; (3) requested and received complementary bids from co-conspirators, which they then submitted schools; and (4) received procurements for school sports equipment and related services where complementary bids were submitted.
Mr. Trimm also pleaded guilty to one count of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1349 for his role in a related scheme to commit wire fraud to obtain money from school sports procurements awarded by submitting false bids to schools in the Southern District of Mississippi and elsewhere. As part this conspiracy, which began as early as May 2016 and continued until as late as May 2023, Trimm and his co-conspirators, among other things, (1) submitted false bids on bidding forms that appeared to be from certain companies, though they were in fact not; (2) used a certain individual’s identity in furtherance of the fraudulent bid scheme, including by forging that individual’s signature on many of the false bids; (3) submitted and caused to be submitted false bids to schools in connection with requests from schools for bids for school sports equipment; and (4) subverted schools' procurement process in order to obtain payments by the submission of false, noncompetitive bids.
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.