Michael S. Flynn was sentenced on Feb. 10 in Bridgeport, Connecticut to fifteen months’ imprisonment and restitution of $1,062,155 for his participation in bid-rigging and fraud schemes concentrating on private and non-private entities in Connecticut. That is the seventh sentencing arising out of the investigation into the insulation contracting business.
In response to a responsible plea entered on Could 1, 2019, the defendant conspired with different insulation contractors to rig bids and interact in fraud on contracts for putting in insulation round pipes and ducts on building tasks at universities, hospitals, and different private and non-private entities in Connecticut. In response to public court docket filings, the victims of the scheme included the College of Connecticut, the Metropolis of Hartford, PepsiCo. Inc., Stamford Hospital, and Yale College. The conspiracy ran for almost seven years, starting as early as June 2011 and persevering with till as late as March 2018. Six different people and corporations have pled responsible to felony conduct arising out of this investigation. Flynn was the final of the seven defendants sentenced.
“Bid rigging and fraud are critical crimes with critical penalties,” mentioned Assistant Lawyer Common Jonathan Kanter of the Justice Division’s Antitrust Division. “This sentence displays the division’s dedication to in search of applicable punishment for felony antitrust violations and guaranteeing that victims of antitrust crimes are made complete.”
“This defendant’s collusive conduct victimized hospitals, universities and companies all through Connecticut,” mentioned U.S. Lawyer Vanessa Roberts Avery for the District of Connecticut. “This jail time period and the penalties imposed on all people and corporations concerned on this scheme ought to deter others from partaking in such felony, anti-competitive habits. I thank the FBI, DCIS, and the Antitrust Division for his or her efforts in bringing these perpetrators to justice.”
“This fraud and deception of the general public and industrial shopper has ended with this sentence,” mentioned Performing Particular Agent in Cost Jean Pierre Njock of the FBI New Haven Discipline Workplace. “We on the FBI together with our regulation enforcement companions will proceed to pursue people who select to have interaction in antitrust crimes.”
“This sentencing is the results of a profitable joint effort to make sure that the markets for providers supplied to the Division of Protection (DoD) are reliable and aggressive,” said Particular Agent in Cost Patrick J. Hegarty of the Northeast Discipline Workplace for the Protection Prison Investigative Service (DCIS). “The DCIS, the regulation enforcement arm of the DoD Workplace of Inspector Common, is dedicated to investigating and prosecuting firms that corrupt the DoD procurement system.”
Flynn beforehand pleaded responsible to at least one depend of bid rigging underneath Part 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act and one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Flynn was additionally ordered to pay a particular evaluation of $200.
This investigation was performed by the Antitrust Division’s New York Workplace, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Connecticut, the FBI’s New Haven Division, and the DCIS’s New Haven Resident Company.
In November 2019, the Division of Justice created the PCSF, a joint regulation enforcement effort to fight antitrust crimes and associated fraudulent schemes that affect authorities procurement, grant, and program funding in any respect ranges of presidency – federal, state and native. For extra info, go to https://www.justice.gov/procurement-collusion-strike-force.