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Largest DBE Fraud Scheme in DOT History

By Alison Jimenez

Here is a press release from the Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General in what they refer to as the "largest reported DBE fraud scheme in DOT history."  Some of the highlights are below:On February 13 2008, Dennis F. Campbell, former Sales and Marketing Vice President of Schuylkill Product Inc. (SPI), pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for his participation in a pass-through scheme that involved approximately 340 federally funded Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) subcontracts valued at $121 million. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) administered the contracts in question between 1993 and 2007. SPI and CDS paid Marikina a fixed fee-25 percent of which Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).