darin
12-14-2007, 05:14 PM
Paul Shorb - I'd see him at quarterly Steering Committee meetings. He was in charge of our entire Info Management Directorate. Based on his years of service, and his position, I'm guessing he made about $125K/year.
A civilian administrator at Fort Lewis pleaded guilty Thursday to taking a free pickup truck from a company negotiating to do business with the Army, the U.S. attorney’s office reported.
Paul John Shorb, 51, entered the plea to one count of accepting an illegal gratuity in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The Olympia resident faces up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced.
Shorb has worked at Fort Lewis for 23 years, the last 18 as chief of the Plans & Programs Division for the Department of Information Management. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the post’s contracts with ACS Systems & Engineering, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based company that provides communications equipment and support.
Federal prosecutors said Shorb illegally accepted the truck from ACS Systems in 2001 when the company was negotiating a contract to do work at Fort Lewis. Shorb learned the company was disposing of some of its trucks and asked an ACS employee to get him one, prosecutors said. Shorb then was offered one of the trucks, a four-year-old model valued at more than $4,600, the U.S. attorney’s office reported.
He accepted it as a gift and then asked the company to provide a false bill of sale for $700 to assist him in licensing the vehicle, prosecutors said.
“At the same time he was asking ACS for the truck, Shorb was participating in a decision to award ACS another contract for work at Fort Lewis,” prosecutors said in a statement. “Shorb failed to disclose the truck on required disclosure forms and then lied to various investigators, claiming that he had purchased the truck on eBay for $700.”
Shorb later admitted what he did was wrong, according to court documents.
He told investigators “that, considering his relationship to ACS, ACS could have perceived that it had to offer him the truck or risk retribution,” the documents state.
Rest at link:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/229336.html
A civilian administrator at Fort Lewis pleaded guilty Thursday to taking a free pickup truck from a company negotiating to do business with the Army, the U.S. attorney’s office reported.
Paul John Shorb, 51, entered the plea to one count of accepting an illegal gratuity in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The Olympia resident faces up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced.
Shorb has worked at Fort Lewis for 23 years, the last 18 as chief of the Plans & Programs Division for the Department of Information Management. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the post’s contracts with ACS Systems & Engineering, a Virginia Beach, Va.-based company that provides communications equipment and support.
Federal prosecutors said Shorb illegally accepted the truck from ACS Systems in 2001 when the company was negotiating a contract to do work at Fort Lewis. Shorb learned the company was disposing of some of its trucks and asked an ACS employee to get him one, prosecutors said. Shorb then was offered one of the trucks, a four-year-old model valued at more than $4,600, the U.S. attorney’s office reported.
He accepted it as a gift and then asked the company to provide a false bill of sale for $700 to assist him in licensing the vehicle, prosecutors said.
“At the same time he was asking ACS for the truck, Shorb was participating in a decision to award ACS another contract for work at Fort Lewis,” prosecutors said in a statement. “Shorb failed to disclose the truck on required disclosure forms and then lied to various investigators, claiming that he had purchased the truck on eBay for $700.”
Shorb later admitted what he did was wrong, according to court documents.
He told investigators “that, considering his relationship to ACS, ACS could have perceived that it had to offer him the truck or risk retribution,” the documents state.
Rest at link:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/229336.html