An advisory from Department of Defense’s Standards of
Conduct Office includes the description of a former Air
Force employee that was sentenced for conflict of
interest, and a DoD employee sentenced for false travel
claims.
The Air Force employee was sentenced last July in a U.S.
District court to two years of probation and ordered to
pay $12,000 restitution plus a $1,000 fine for “sole
sourcing” a contract to his brother’s company, which then
subcontracted to another company that the former employee
set up, according to the SOCO.
It said the former employee violated 18 U.S.C. 208 by
preparing a statement of work and a cost estimate for
coming back as a contractor to the Air Force.
“The conflict resulted from his personal and substantial
participation in drafting the contract in his official
capacity that he would sign in a personal capacity to
benefit his own financial interest,” said SOCO.
In another matter, it recounted the case of an employee of
the Defense Finance and Accounting Service who was
sentenced in a U.S. District Court for submitting false
lodging claims.
It said the employee pled guilty to submitting nine false
claims totaling $11,418 for lodging and rent reimbursement,
which he had claimed even while sharing an apartment with
another DFAS employee who worked in the same office. He
was sentenced to four months of home confinement, two
years of probation, ordered to perform 200 hours of
community service, and fined $2,000 plus $11,418 in
restitution, it said.
SOCO also announced that it has completed and posted its
2004 computer-based ethics-training module for the ethical
issues surrounding contractors in the workplace — for
which the training module and slides are available here:
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