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US Army contracting official charged with bribery
A US Army contracting official has been charged with bribery and "unlawful salary supplementation" in connection with two schemes to solicit more than $30,000 in bribes from an Egyptian businessman in Kuwait.
William Rondell Collins, 46, of Tennessee was charged in a four-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, with two counts of soliciting and accepting bribes as a public official and two counts of unlawful salary supplementation from a source other than the US government.
The bribery charges stem from Collins' involvement with the US Army Area Support Group-Kuwait (ASG-KU), which is responsible for maintaining Camp Arifjan, a US military installation providing support for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and other locations in the Southwest Asian Theater. As part of those responsibilities, the ASG-KU maintains an off-post housing office in downtown Kuwait City, which procures, leases and supervises off-post housing for government employees and military service members stationed at Camp Arifjan.
According to the indictment, Collins was employed in the ASG-KU's off-post housing office as a housing specialist responsible for supervising private contractors and procuring off-post apartment rentals.
The indictment alleges that, in January 2009, a company owned by an Egyptian businessman was awarded a fixed-price US government contract to provide maintenance services for off-post housing managed by Collins and the ASG-KU off-post housing office.
According to the indictment, in July 2009, Collins allegedly solicited a monthly fee of approximately $1,400 from the Egyptian businessman in return for Collins's agreement to provide favourable and preferential treatment and advice to the Egyptian businessman's company on the performance and renewal of the contract.
Collins also allegedly agreed to conceal from his supervisors the existence and nature of the monthly fee arrangement. According to the indictment, Collins allegedly accepted five $1,400 payments from the Egyptian businessman between July and December 2009.
The bribery counts each carry a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the value gained or lost. The unlawful salary supplementation counts each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of the greater of $250,000 or twice the value gained or lost.
The case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant US Attorney Steve A. Linick, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division's Fraud Section; and Fraud Section Trial Attorneys James J. Graham and Ryan S. Faulconer. The investigation is being conducted by the FBI, the US Army Criminal Investigative Division, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and members of the National Procurement Fraud Task Force and the International Contract Corruption Task Force (ICCTF).
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