Ex-Fort Bragg Worker Gets 3 Years for Taking Bribes

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man who labored at Fort Bragg was sentenced Wednesday to greater than three years in jail for bribery and cash laundering associated to authorities contracts, in keeping with a federal prosecutor.

U.S. Legal professional Michael Easley mentioned in a information launch that Calvin Alfonza Jordan, who pleaded responsible to receiving bribes, was a procurement agent assigned to the Operations and Upkeep Division, Directorate of Public Works at Fort Bragg. The directorate is liable for design, building, upkeep and operation of utility programs on put up, together with offering centralized administration of Military household housing.

Court docket paperwork confirmed that from 2011 into 2019, Jordan used his place as a procurement agent to obtain bribes of roughly $200 per order from varied distributors contracting with the directorate in return for growing the variety of federal contracts given the seller.

Prosecutors estimate Jordan obtained $773,600 in unlawful bribes.

Two different males have been indicted within the case.

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