The former chief executive of a Northern Virginia defense contractor pleaded guilty to a federal charge of providing gratuities to a federal contracting official, and the company agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for its involvement in the bid-rigging scheme, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Harry Martin, who stepped down as the head of Intelligent Decisions last month, pleaded guilty to charges that he and other company officials paid illegal gratuities to an Army procurement official based in South Korea, spending more than $10,000 on dinners and golf outings and, in one case, agreeing to spend more than $30,000 on a Lexus ES350 for the official to use, according to the department.
In return, the company received lucrative contracts from the official, identified as Seon Lim, and preferential treatment on Army subcontracts worth up to $4 million.
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