FORT DRUM — A Dexter girl who labored as a civilian contracting officer for the U.S. Army at Fort Drum pleaded responsible Tuesday to a federal cost that she accepted gratuities from her contractor boyfriend in change for taking official motion on authorities contracts that benefited him.
Cindy McAleese, 57, pleaded responsible in U.S. District Courtroom, Syracuse, to conspiracy to commit an offense towards the US.
In response to a plea settlement filed with the court docket, McAleese sought and acquired issues of worth from native basic contractor Sean O’Sullivan, together with sports activities tickets, meals, sexual encounters, and time and a spotlight, in change for her taking official motion on Mr. O’Sullivan’s behalf, corresponding to offering Mr. O’Sullivan’s firm with authorities contracts and approving fee on these contracts.
She additional admitted that she and Mr. O’Sullivan took steps to maintain their relationship a secret from different officers at Fort Drum
O’Sullivan, Sackets Harbor, was co-owner of Sierra Delta Contracting LLC together with David M. Rose of Newport News, Virginia. They each pleaded responsible in federal court docket in March 2022 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, admitting that they schemed to acquire authorities building contracts at Fort Drum that had been put aside for companies owned and operated by disabled veterans.
Federal authorities companies supply “set-aside” building contracts to Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Companies, SDVOSBs, which should meet sure standards, together with {that a} army veteran with a incapacity score incurred on account of army service should personal nearly all of the enterprise and personally handle and management its each day enterprise operations.
Prosecutors stated that Rose and O’Sullivan included and co-owned Sierra Delta, a building firm. Though Rose is a service-disabled army veteran, O’Sullivan is just not, in keeping with prosecutors. O’Sullivan licensed to federal companies that Sierra Delta was a SDVOSB, falsely representing that Mr. Rose personally managed and managed Sierra Delta’s day-to-day enterprise operations.
That certification was false, prosecutors stated, as a result of O’Sullivan, not Rose, fulfilled these roles. Rose lived in Virginia, the place he had a full-time job unrelated to Sierra Delta, and O’Sullivan ran the enterprise by himself in Jefferson County, with little enter from Rose.
Sierra Delta bid on and acquired a number of building contracts from the Army at Fort Drum and one building contract from the U.S. Division of Transportation. The entire contracts had been 100% put aside for SDVOSBs. These contracts had been fraudulently obtained as a result of Sierra Delta was not a SDVOSB, prosecutors stated.
O’Sullivan organized for Sierra Delta to rent SOS Inc. — O’Sullivan’s personal building firm — as the first subcontractor on the set-aside contracts, enabling O’Sullivan to retain nearly all of the income generated by the contracts. O’Sullivan admitted that he acquired $345,271 in income from the scheme. Rose admitted that he acquired $33,992 from his participation within the scheme.
Authorities companies challenged Sierra Delta’s SDVOSB standing and questioned whether or not Rose managed the corporate on a day-to-day foundation. In response, Rose falsely claimed that he “management(led) the long-term and day-to-day operations of Sierra Delta Contracting LLC,” that he maintained Sierra Delta’s “primary workplace” in Virginia, that he labored on Sierra Delta enterprise 25 hours per week and that O’Sullivan devoted considerably much less time to Sierra Delta. Rose knew these statements had been false, in keeping with prosecutors.
In a associated matter, O’Sullivan additionally pleaded responsible to conspiring to commit an offense towards the US by providing and giving gratuities to McAleese. In pleading responsible, Mr. O’Sullivan agreed that he promised and supplied issues of worth to McAleese, together with sports activities tickets, meals, sexual encounters, and time and a spotlight, for and due to official motion taken by Ms. McAleese on Mr. O’Sullivan’s behalf, corresponding to offering Mr. O’Sullivan’s firm with authorities contracts and approving fee on these contracts.
Rose was sentenced Sept. 7, 2022, to a $2,000 wonderful and ordered to pay $33,992 in restitution. O’Sullivan is scheduled to be sentenced Could 16.
Upon her responsible plea Tuesday, McAleese agreed to enter into the Offering Alternate options That Assist (PATH) pretrial diversion program. This system, which is no less than a yr lengthy and may be prolonged to as much as two years, requires, amongst different issues, that she commit no new crimes, take part in substance abuse therapy and counseling applications and carry out neighborhood service. Her participation in this system will likely be overseen by a probation officer and would require no less than quarterly appearances earlier than a PATH workforce and a PATH judicial officer to make sure compliance with this system’s phrases.
If she efficiently completes this system, she will likely be allowed to return to court docket and withdraw her responsible plea, at which period the indictment towards her will likely be dismissed. If she fails to finish this system, she faces a time period in jail of as much as 5 years and as much as a $250,000 wonderful.
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