July 30, 2019

A Micronesian government official has been sentenced to 1.5 years in a U.S. prison for participating in a scheme to launder bribes from the owner of a Hawaii-based engineering and consulting company.  In violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Master Halbert had agreed to bribes in exchange for directing nearly $8 million in aviation contracts from Micronesia’s Department of Transportation, Communications and Infrastructure to co-defendant Frank Lyon.  DOJ

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