Government Contractor’s Wire Fraud Conspiracy Conviction Upheld

A government contractor’s conviction for conspiracy to commit wire fraud was upheld by the Third Circuit, but the government’s loss must be recalculated so the contractor can be resentenced.

Given the complex nature of the fraud involved, the district court should be commended for its calculations, but not all of the contractor’s gains were ill-gotten, the opinion by Judge Theodore A. McKee said April 21.

Stamatios Kousisis was a project manager at Alpha Painting & Construction Co., which was involved in two contracts for work on Pennsylvania road projects. As part of the contracts, the company agreed to use a ...