MARYLAND
A federal judge today sentenced a former contacting officer to a year and three months in prison for taking bribes in connection with the awarding of mail delivery contracts, officials said.
Gregory Cooper, 59, accepted bribes that ranged from fitness equipment delivered to Cooper’s Glenn Dale, Maryland home to a semester’s worth of college tuition for Cooper’s daughter, in addition to $15,900 in cash, according to authorities.
Cooper admitted that in exchange for these payments, he gave favorable consideration to his co-defendant’s companies in the bidding process for nine Postal Service contracts, all of which were awarded to the co-defendant’s companies.
In addition to his prison sentence, the judge ordered Cooper to forfeit the amount of the bribes, $25,931.76, officials said.
In May 2015, officials said Cooper pleaded guilty to accepting more than $25,000 in bribes from a co-defendant who owned two companies that bid on and secured transportation contracts with the Postal Service for mail delivery, officials said.