$671,000 in Bribes to the VA Engineer Who Steered the Work

A contractor paid a VA supervisory engineer $671K in bribes; he steered $6M in VA construction projects to her companies — including one falsely claimed as disabled-veteran-owned. Both went to prison.

Court record — not allegation. The defendant in this case, Donna Doremus, 47, of Hopewell, New Jersey; Jarod Machinga, VA supervisory engineer, was convicted. The facts below are drawn from the official account of the case, linked at the bottom of this page.
$671K / $6M+Bribes paid / VA projects steered
OutcomeDoremus: 37 months. Machinga: 46 months. $671,975 forfeiture
ForumU.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; sentencings 2015

From 2007 to July 2012, Doremus paid Machinga roughly $671,000 in bribes. In return, the VA supervisory engineer at East Orange used his authority to steer VA construction contracts to her three companies.

They also conspired to falsely represent that Tyro General Construction was owned and controlled by a service-disabled veteran. Tyro was paid more than $3 million on the falsely obtained contract.

Doremus deducted the bribe payments and personal spending as business expenses, underpaying her federal taxes by $250,374. Both pleaded guilty. VA OIG, the FBI and IRS-Criminal Investigation investigated.

"Machinga directed more than $6 million of VA construction projects to Doremus’ companies."
— U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey
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 New Jersey. 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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