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DENVER – United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announces that Pueblo business owner Mary Catherine Grasmick pled guilty to falsifying records with the intent to obstruct a federal investigation. The plea was accepted by U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico yesterday in United States District Court in Denver. Sentencing is scheduled for December 17, 2019.

Contractor agrees to $2.4 million settlement in whistleblower case

LITTLE ROCK—A Little Rock man was sentenced for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded a government program intended help non-profits, municipal agencies, and disadvantaged businesses. Mark Gregory Jackson, Sr., 62, of Little Rock, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Brian S. Miller.

Luke Hillier, the majority owner and former Chief Executive Officer of Virginia-based defense contractor ADS, Inc., has agreed to pay the United States $20 million to settle allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently obtaining federal set-aside contracts reserved for small businesses that his company was ineligible to receive, the Department of Justice announced today.

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the August 2019 Federal Grand Jury.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging CHRISTINA ROCHELLE ANGLIN, of Burnsville, North Carolina, with six counts of failure to collect and pay over employment taxes, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bristow, Oklahoma, resident GEORGE PHILLIP TIGER, age 69, has been Indicted for Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(B), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.

U.S. Attorney John H. Durham and officials from the U.S. Small Business Administration and U.S. General Services Administration today announced that CLASSIC SITE SOLUTIONS, INC. (“CSS”) and its owner, CHERYL SADY, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which they will pay $1.3 million dollars to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Support of Microcomputers Associates (“SOMA”) has agreed to a judgment against it in the amount of $300,000 for selling printers and other equipment to federal agencies that was manufactured in China and other non-compliant countries.

NORFOLK, Va. – A former member of the Virginia General Assembly was sentenced today to two and a half years in prison for his role in a conspiracy that resulted in the fraudulent award of over $80 million in government contracts.