U.S. v. Scott Reefe

Antwann C.K. Rawls, an on-site government IT consultant, and Scott A. Reefe, an IT sales executive, also pleaded guilty in related cases. On Jan. 8, Reefe pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and, on Jan. 13, Rawls pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States. According to public documents, from at least 2018 until at least May 2019, Rawls, Reefe and their co-conspirators used their positions of trust to learn sensitive, confidential procurement information, including procurement budgets for large U.S. government IT contracts. They and their co-conspirators used that inside information to rig bids for U.S. government IT procurements at artificially determined, non-competitive and non-independent prices, ensuring one of their co-conspirators’ companies would win the procurement. The defendants submitted their collusive bids despite knowing the government sought independent, competitive bids for these valuable contracts, causing the U.S. government to suffer at least $1,300,000 in losses.