A former Obama official of the Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General on Friday was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for accepting bribes and defrauding the US government.
According to charging documents, Matthew LumHo, 47, began soliciting and accepting bribes from co-conspirator William S. Wilson in 2012.
Wilson received all the business without any competition and disguised the bribes my making them as payroll payments to one of LumHo's relatives - to a bank account controlled by LumHo - for a job that didn't even exist.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former official of the U.S. Department of Defense's Office of Inspector General was sentenced today to 7.5 years in prison for accepting bribes and defrauding the government, among other crimes, in relation to a contract he oversaw at the DoD OIG. According to court documents, Matthew K. LumHo, 47, of Fairfax Station, was employed at the DoD OIG's Information Services Directorate.
Beginning no later than 2012, LumHo solicited and accepted bribes from co-conspirator William S. Wilson, in exchange for steering what nominally was intended to be telecommunications or information technology services through the prime government contract, through an intermediary telecommunications company, to Wilson's company.
Wilson and LumHo disguised the bribes by falsely masking them as payroll payments to a relative of LumHo for a job that did not in fact exist, with the bribes being deposited into an account that LumHo in fact controlled.
LumHo and Wilson also used fraudulent service orders to conceal bribes in the form of high-end camera equipment and stereo equipment sent from Wilson to LumHo, thereby defrauding the government into to paying for the very bribes themselves.
Monday, January 17, 2022
Obama DoD OIG Official Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison For Accepting Bribes and Defrauding US Government
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