Tag: U.S. Attorney’s Office Vermont

New York Man Gets Probation, $2.5 Million Fine After Multi-Million Dollar Kickback Scheme in USVI, PR

MONTPELIER — A New York man who siphoned off money from three General Services Administration projects totaling $34.4 million in St. Croix, St. Thomas and Puerto Rico was sentenced to probation and a whopping $2.5 million fine, authorities said. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Bhaskar Patel, […]

East Indian Pleads Guilty To Taking $2.5 Million in Kickbacks In Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

RUTLAND, Vermont — A Florida man who worked as a project manager for a company that has done more than $200 million of dollars in energy efficiency work for the U.S. government pleaded guilty Monday to charges he took more than $2.5 million in kickbacks and bribes over a five-year period from subcontractors he was overseeing. Bhaskar […]