The Director for Hire

While running VA medical centers, William Montague secretly consulted for a design firm bidding on VA jobs — selling it inside information about VA construction. 64 counts. 57 months.

Court record — not allegation. The defendant in this case, William D. Montague, 63, of Brecksville, Ohio — former director, Cleveland and Dayton VA Medical Centers, was convicted. The facts below are drawn from the official account of the case, linked at the bottom of this page.
~$390,000Restitution and forfeiture paid
Outcome57 months in prison after pleading guilty to 64 counts
ForumU.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

While still a VA medical center director, Montague worked as a consultant for an integrated design firm that performed VA work — soliciting and accepting gifts, payments and other things of value in exchange for favorable official actions.

He shared confidential information about VA construction projects and solicited a consulting contract for himself and his own financial-services company, House of Montague. He also lied to VA employees about why he was requesting VA documents and information.

He pleaded guilty to 64 counts, including Hobbs Act conspiracy, honest-services mail fraud conspiracy, money laundering, and wire and mail fraud. The FBI and VA OIG investigated.

"he chose to become self-serving accepting bribes and kickbacks in exchange for favorable official actions"
— U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Ohio
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, Northern District of Ohio. 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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