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| Businessmen sentenced in kickback scheme |
| By bizjournals.com |
| Published: 09/24/2009 |
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Three Californians were sentenced Wednesday for a a kickback scheme involving a former Oregon Department of Corrections employee. U. S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene sentenced Michael Levin, 53, and William Lawrence, 51, both of Valencia, Calif., and Howard Roth, 60, of Sherman Oaks, Calif., for their participation in a bribery scheme with Farhad “Fred” Monem, the former food services manager for the Oregon Department of Corrections. Each was sentenced to 12 months — three months in jail, followed by nine months of home detention. The three operated Levin & Lawrence Inc., a wholesale food distributor in Santa Clarita, Calif. Their company sold food products to institutional clients, including prisons. From August 2004 through December 2006, the three paid a total of $532,000 in kickbacks to Monem to secure more than $4.3 million in food contracts with the Oregon Department of Corrections. When the kickback scheme was discovered in December 2006, the three admitted to participating in the bribery scheme and began cooperating in the government’s investigation of Monem. In April 2007 they pled to one count of bribery and one count of filing a false income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service. Read More. |
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