Investigations

USAO, District of Maine - Press Release

On June 11, 2021, Jim Wentworth pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine to making false statements related to a highway project. On June 8, Wentworth was charged by an information for the same charges. In May 2019, Wentworth, a project manager for Reed & Reed, Inc., received an itemized cost list from a subcontractor, falsely inflated the costs, and submitted the falsified list to the Maine Department of Transportation in a contract modification. Wentworth executed the contract modification using the inflated cost amounts from June through December 2019, resulting in more than $91,000 in overpayments to Reed & Reed, Inc.