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WASHINGTON – Terrell McCray, 31, a former employee of the District of Columbia Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS), pled guilty today to using government-issued credit cards to make purchases over $4,000 in gasoline for personal vehicles, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Robert C. Erickson, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

A Miami resident was sentenced to 27 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution of $196,645 to the Internal Revenue Service. Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Robert C. Erickson, Deputy Inspector General, General Services Administration Office of the Inspector General (GSA-OIG), made the announcement.

DENVER – Hemal Ramesh Jhaveri, age 52, of Lone Tree, Colorado, pled guilty this week before Chief U.S. District Court Chief Marcia S. Krieger to conspiracy to defraud the United States, federal authorities announced. Chief Judge Krieger is scheduled to sentence Jhaveri on June 15, 2015. Jhaveri was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on August 6, 2014. An information was subsequently filed on March 16, 2015, the same day he pled guilty. Jhaveri is free on bond.

DES MOINES, IA – On March 12, 2015, Omaha, Nebraska contractor Ram Hingorani, age 50, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 6 months in a half-way house as part of a sentence of two years of probation, after pleading guilty to Major Program Fraud in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Hingorani’s company, Midwest Paving, Inc. (MPI), was sentenced to two years of probation, after pleading guilty to money laundering in furtherance of the scheme.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Lend Lease Construction, Inc., a global company locally based in Rockville, Maryland, and Cindell Construction Company, based in Frederick, Maryland, agreed to pay a total of $400,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations in connection with an agreement to perform construction work to renovate a property the government is currently leasing in Reston, Virginia known as “Patriots Park.”

WASHINGTON – Kimberley Pinkney, a former inspector with the District of Columbia Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services (DCFEMS), pled guilty today to using her government-issued credit card to purchase over $11,000 in gasoline for her personal vehicle, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Robert C. Erickson, Deputy Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

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Baltimore, Maryland - Department of Defense contractor Tangible Software, Inc., owned and operated by Energy Management and Security Solutions, LLC since 2011, has agreed to pay the United States between $500,000 and $1.05 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company submitted false claims to the Department of Defense under prior ownership from 2008 to 2011.

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ALEXANDRIA, VA – Dawn Hamilton, 48, of Brownsville, Maryland, the chief executive officer and “figurehead” of a now-defunct Virginia-based security contracting firm, Security Assistance Corporation (“SAC”), has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle civil claims arising from a fraudulent scheme to establish SAC as a front company, which obtained more than $31 million in contract payments intended for disadvantaged small businesses through the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Section 8(a) program.