Indictment: Veteran Charged In $40 Million Government Contract Fraud Scheme

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/indictment-veteran-charged-40-million-government-contract-fraud-scheme

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Kansas

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 1, 2017

Indictment: Veteran Charged In $40 Million Government Contract Fraud Scheme

KANSAS CITY, KAN. –Joseph David Dial, Jr., 52, Belton, Mo., is charged in a federal indictment unsealed today with four counts of major program fraud against the United States and four counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The indictment alleges during the period from in or about August 2008, to in or about September 2015, Dial unlawfully devised a scheme to defraud and to obtain money and property by means of material false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, in order to obtain a $40 million Department of Defense contract.

The indictment alleges Dial unlawfully formed a pass-through business called United Medical Design Builders, LLC with another person. The company received a contract through the Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business program that was awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the design and construction of healthcare facilities at Langley AFB, Andrews AFB, Hanscom AFB, and McGuire AFB. The indictment alleges United Medical Design Builders, LLC was not a legitimate Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and should not have obtained the contract.
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