PENNSYLVANIA
The former president of a defense contractor providing services to the U.S. military in Iraq was sentenced today to a year in prison for his role in a scheme to pay more than $1.2 million in bribes to U.S. Army officers, officials said.
The officers awarded lucrative defense contracts, according to authorities.
U.S. District Judge Joel H. Slomsky of Pennsylvania sentenced Justin W. Lee, 37, of Philadelphia, the former president of Lee Dynamics International or LDI, who plead guilty in July 2011 to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and four substantive counts of bribery.
In connection with his guilty plea, Lee admitted that he was the president of LDI and previously as an officer of American Logistics Services, a Kuwaiti company providing supplies to the U.S. military in Iraq.
He also admitted to multiple bribes in the form of cash, airline tickets, trips and hotel stays, among other things, to military contracting personnel in exchange for their agreement to take official action to award lucrative contracts to both LDI and Logistics Services.
Lee’s father and co-defendant, George Lee, who was the CEO of both companies, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison in July for one count of bribery, officials said.
This marks the end of a long-running investigation, which began in 2006, that led to the conviction of seven other defendants, including several high-ranking contracting officers, according to officials.