前首席执行utive of a Pennsylvania company that made concrete bridge beams has been convicted on multiple counts of fraud and money laundering in what the U.S. Dept. of Transportation says is the largest reported Disadvantaged Business Enterprise fraud in the department’s 45-year history.
The Justice Dept. said a jury in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg on April 5 found Joseph W. Nagle guilty on 26 of the 30 charges in a federal indictment. Nagle (pronounced NOGG-ull) was president, CEO and part-owner of Schuylkill Products Inc. (SPI), Cressona, Pa., and its CDS Engineering Inc. subsidiary until 2009 when the parent SPI was sold.
Nagle的律师迈克尔A. Schwartz说，“显然，我们对判决感到失望。”他补充说，他于4月6日提出了一项议案，寻求90天的延期“用于审判后的动议，并铺设一些我们认为可能适用于无罪或新审判的理由。”
The Justice Dept. said Nagle, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., was convicted of joining in a long-running conspiracy to defraud U.S. DOT, the Pennsylvania DOT (PennDOT) and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) when he became SPI president in 2004.
美国官员表示，涉嫌计划从1993年到2008年延长，并涉及联邦援助运输合同中超过1.36亿美元。
Since 1983, U.S. DOT has been required by law to make sure that at least 10% of its authorized highway and transit funds go to DBEs. The department has a single DBE goal that includes companies owned by women or members of minority groups.
Justice says the alleged conspirators used Marikina Construction Corp., a small Connecticut firm, as a front company to gain subcontracts designated to go to DBEs.
Federal officials said that Marikina, owned by Romeo P. Cruz of West Haven, Conn., was certified as a DBE by PennDOT and SEPTA, the Philadelphia area’s transit agency.
