Former FBI Official and His Sister Charged in Bid-Rigging Scheme to Defraud US

The ex-official solicited bids for electronic equipment, then had his sister submit bogus bids, winning $350,000 in contracts. They agreed to plead guilty.
Former FBI Official and His Sister Charged in Bid-Rigging Scheme to Defraud US
The FBI seal in the Flag Room at the bureau's headquarters in Washington on March 9, 2007. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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A former electronics technician at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office and his sister were charged July 2 with conspiring to defraud the United States to win $350,000 in low-bid contracts to provide the agency with electronic equipment, according to federal prosecutors.

Jeffrey Spencer, 51, of Canyon Country, and Christy Evereklian, 43, of Temecula, agreed to plead guilty to the felony offense, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.

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