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Aircraft Parts
Brokers Sentenced For Procurement Fraud Against The Military By Jim Douglas |
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April 8, 2012 - U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations
(ICE-HSI), announced the sentencing of Henry McFlicker,
67, of Parkland, Florida, and Ayodha Persaud, 63, of
Coral Springs, Florida, for their participation in a
procurement scheme to defraud the U.S. Air Force and the
U.S. Navy and the commercial aviation sector. The defendants were convicted on charges of conspiracy to commit aircraft parts fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. At Thursdays hearing, U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams sentenced defendant Henry McFlicker to 45 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. |
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Defendant Ayodha Persaud was sentenced to 37 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Williams also ordered both defendants to pay $1,454,232 in restitution to the United States government. According to documents filed with the court and statements made at the sentencing hearing, defendants McFlicker and Persaud were the corporate officers of Daytona Aerospace Inc., a South Florida aviation parts broker whose business included the purchase, sale, and trade of aircraft parts between commercial airlines, private aircraft, other brokers, and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
Since
2001, the defendants had received more than $8.5 million in
contracts to provide various aircraft parts to the DOD for use
on KC-135 or E-3 military aircraft.
To conceal
the fraud, the defendants and their employees would complete a
Certificate of Conformance, also known as a “Parts or Material
Certification Form” or an “ATA 106,” and other paperwork, such
as packing slips and invoices, that misrepresented either the
condition of the parts or the manufacturer. |