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6 Years in Jail and $5,000,000 forfeited

By Alison Jimenez

The chips continue to fall in the Senator Bromwell case.  The former CEO of a company that ran the front company with Senator Bromwell was sentenced to 6 and a half years and ordered to forfeit $5,000,000.  Here's the press release from the Department of Justice and here's an excerpt:According to the statement of facts, Stoffregen participated in a minority ?front? company fraud scheme with Michael Forti, his wife Geraldine Forti and Bromwell?s wife. Michael Forti was executive vice-president and CEO of Forti, Poole and Kent (FP&K), a construction company that often served as a subcontractor to P&K and was jointly owned by Stoffregen and Forti. Geraldine Forti was the owner of Namco, a certified woman-owned business. When Geraldine Forti decided in 1999 that she no longer wanted to run Namco, Stoffregen paid Geraldine Forti to allow him to use her company?s identity to help P&K satisfy certain minority contracting requirements on various public and private construction contracts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on December 04, 2007 (boomark / email).