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On December 6, 2023, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan indicted Adam Ball, Andrew Semenchuk, and Jeffrey Bartlett on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. The indictment alleged that Ball and Semenchuk, former owners and executives of Surveying Solutions, Inc. (SSI), and Jeffrey Bartlett, current owner and executive of SSI, were awarded millions of dollars in construction and surveying contracts from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
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12.19.2023
On December 4, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California sentenced Trevor Daniel Jacob to 6 months of incarceration, 2 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. On June 30, 2023, Jacob pleaded guilty to obstructing a Federal investigation. As part of a plea agreement, Jacob admitted to ejecting and parachuting from an airplane, which caused it to crash in the Los Padres National Forest in November 2021. Various cameras mounted on the airplane recorded the crash, and Jacob later uploaded footage of it on YouTube with the intent to make money.
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12.19.2023
On December 1, 2023, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Stuart Conklin pleaded guilty to making a false entry in a required report. Conklin, a former signal inspector for the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Long Island Railroad (LIRR), was previously indicted in April 2022. On April 26, 2019, Conklin, whose responsibilities included performing regular inspections of rail bonds, falsely indicated in an inspection report that a particular rail bond in Speonk, New York was inspected and that the bond had passed inspection.
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12.18.2023
In September 2021, the Office of National Drug Control Policy issued its National Drug Control Program Agency Compliance Reviews Circular (the Circular). The Circular requires agencies to annually submit two reports on National Drug Control Program (NDCP) activities and the Office of Inspector General to periodically perform an attestation review of these reports. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requested exemptions from our review for fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023, which is permitted since its prior year drug-related obligations were less than $50 million.
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12.14.2023
On November 8, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California sentenced Daniel Maquindang, a former employee of Shimmick Construction Co., Inc., to time served, 4 years of supervised release, $167,038.37 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment. In July 2022, Maquindang pleaded guilty to five counts of bank fraud. Shimmick was one of the prime contractors on the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project, which was partially funded by the Federal Highway Administration.
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12.13.2023

The OIG's Office of Investigations, has taken a number of steps to help proactively combat fraud in projects receiving ARRA funds. Our most significant preventative measure is providing training through fraud awareness and prevention briefings with Federal, state and local officials who oversee and utilize ARRA funds.

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