Va. man gets 5 years for fraud at Army bases

Posted to: Military Virginia

The Associated Press
© October 29, 2009

SCRANTON, Pa.

A Virginia man involved in a bribery and fraud scheme at military installations in Pennsylvania and Virginia has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Forty-eight-year-old Derrick Jackson of Stafford, Va., was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Scranton. He was convicted in April 2008.

Prosecutors say Jackson received bribes worth more than $134,000 from a New York City computer dealer, Computer Giants, in return for helping Computer Giants win millions of dollars in contracts from the Army.

Several other civilian government employees, an Army major, and a Computer Giants salesman have previously pleaded guilty to the conspiracy at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia and the Tobyhanna Army Depot in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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