The former leasing director for the feds within the New England area will spend 4 months in jail for not disclosing commissions he made on outdoors actual property dealings.
Kevin Richards, 52, of Hanover, served because the leasing director for the New England Region of the Public Buildings Service below the federal General Services Administration, the place the Herald beforehand reported he had labored since 1992. Richards pleaded responsible to the cost of receiving an unlawful gratuity as a public official and two counts of constructing false statements to a federal company on March 29.
U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV sentenced Richards Tuesday in federal court docket in Boston to 4 months in jail and one 12 months of supervised launch. Richards was additionally fined $7,500 and was ordered to forfeit the $10,250 fee he earned as an unreported fee whereas working as an agent for a Duxbury actual property firm.
As regional director of the federal workplace tasked with procuring actual property and different items for the U.S. authorities, Richards was chargeable for hiring individuals for the leasing workplace. The feds say that in April 2020, Richards manipulated the hiring course of to rent the proprietor of the true property company after which secured a wage for the particular person of $102,517, or about $17,000 greater than regular.
Richards then began receiving commissions from actual property dealings once more and falsely informed GSA ethics officers that he he “did not do any outside business last year.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”