Prosecutors contended that from 1994 to 2000 the fake and inflated invoices went through Richardson, who received $595,570 in kickbacks.
The Indian Express claims it has found at least 12 instances in which inflated invoices were submitted to claim reimbursement much higher than the actual fare (Indian Express).
The employee, Robert D'Avanzo, worked for the New York State Dormitory Authority, but also had his own company, B&B Construction, which got contracts through bid rigging and which submitted inflated invoices to the state.
Mr. Coffin, the first person charged in the scandal, admitted that he issued inflated invoices for contracts, defrauding the government of $1.2 million.
An electrical contractor defrauded the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of more than $2 million by regularly submitting fake, inflated invoices for work it performed at public buildings, according to guilty pleas unsealed yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
A10 A federal jury found the contractor Custer Battles guilty of defrauding the United States by filing grossly inflated invoices for work done in Iraq in the year after the invasion.
He is expected to begin serving his sentence next year for the tax fraud conviction, which related to a complex system of illegally inflated invoices at his Mediaset television empire.
The company paid a relatively modest fine of $2.5 million to resolve criminal and securities charges that the company used gifts, inflated invoices and improper referral payments to encourage doctors in state-owned hospitals abroad to order company products and send patients to company-owned imaging centers.
"While we may never know how much was stolen from the M.T.A.," Mr. Morgenthau said, "the investigation revealed that one plumbing contractor alone generated approximately $9.3 million in fraudulent labor charges, inflated invoices for materials, and cash-generating schemes to renovate his house, purchase jewelry, furniture and stock, and evade taxes".
