Snow Removal That Never Happened

A VA contract officer approved invoices for snow removal that was unnecessary or never performed, took bribes through a bookkeeper — and the bookkeeper tipped off the target when the FBI came. All four pleaded guilty.

Court record — not allegation. The defendant in this case, Donald Garner; Richard Vaughan (VA contract officer); Dale Johnson; Yalonda Moore, was convicted. The facts below are drawn from the official account of the case, linked at the bottom of this page.
$347,000Estimated government losses
OutcomeGarner and Vaughan: one year and one day each. Johnson: five years’ probation. Moore: three years’ probation
ForumU.S. District Court, District of Alaska

Between 2015 and 2017, Garner had his bookkeeper deliver over $29,000 in bribes to Vaughan, the VA official overseeing his contracts — including a $700,000 SDVOSB snow-removal contract in Anchorage.

Vaughan approved invoices for work that was unnecessary or never performed and steered dozens of purchase-card jobs to Garner. Separately, Johnson let Garner run SDVOSB contracts through ADALECO’s name for a percentage kickback worth $54,302.

When the FBI and VA OIG investigated, Moore — nominally cooperating — tipped Garner off about the FBI’s plans. All four pleaded guilty; restitution of $347,000 was ordered against Garner and Vaughan.

"work that was either unnecessary or never actually performed"
— U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Alaska
The system these cases ran through is run by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins. The accountability record — the letters, the filings, the unanswered questions — is kept at DearDougCollins.com. For the veterans on the other side of the VA's machinery — including the exposure-classification fight — the hub is BrownWaterVet.com.

Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Alaska. Case file in the VA Fraud case files — part of the VA Fraud record. Cases are published as the courts decided them; amounts are stated as the Justice Department states them (billed, stolen, or ordered in restitution, as labeled).

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