Posted on 01/12/2018 7:12:35 PM PST by bitt
The founder and owner of Frederick’s Dragon Distillery was indicted Friday for his alleged role in bribing a Russian atomic energy official to win government contracts for the company he formerly co-owned.
Mark Lambert, 54, of Mount Airy, faces 11 charges including violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and wire fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement released Friday.
“We categorically reject the charges and are eager to dispute and defeat them in court,” William M. Sullivan Jr., attorney for Lambert, said in an email Friday.
Lambert, who owns Dragon Distillery in Frederick, is the former co-president, along with Daren Condrey, of a Maryland-based nuclear fuel transportation company. The company, referred to as Transportation Company A in the indictment, provided logistical support for transporting nuclear materials in the United States and to foreign clients.
In the indictment unsealed Friday, prosecutors allege that Lambert and others concealed corrupt and fraudulent payments with fake invoices, offshore bank accounts and shell companies in Latvia, Cyprus and Switzerland, the release states.
Authorities believe that from at least 2009 to October 2014 Lambert and other company executives conspired to bribe Vadim Mikerin, an official at the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation subsidiary JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), in order to secure contracts for transporting nuclear fuel, according to the Justice Department release.
TENEX, which supplies uranium and uranium enrichment services to international companies, wholly owned a U.S.-based company called TENAM Corporation, according to the indictment.
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Good info, thanks.
Condrey is still awaiting sentencing after 2.5 years. Can mean only one thing; he's cooperating with the feds.
The Uranium associated investigations under Obama's DOJ were dead for 1.5 of those years he was awaiting sentencing. So I don't think that Condrey cooperating with the feds is the reason unless it is to help cover things up.
Beyond that, it's more likely that acting AG Rosenstein knows more about the government side of the associated Uranium scandals than does Condrey. Beyond even that, if Condrey actually did know things about the government side of the associated Uranium scandals, he would actually be putting Rosenstein, his buddy Mueller and all of their cohorts, Holder, Hillary, Obama... in jeopardy.
Condrey’s knowledge of the criminal conduct of the individuals you mention may be why the Obama DOJ hadn’t had him sentenced, yet. On the other hand, his prosecution could not be controlled by the DOJ once the local US Attorney got it rolling.
Rosenstein lead the prosecutorial team against Condrey. And now with Sessions recused, it's Rosenstein again, with almost exactly the same prosecutorial team in this case against Cowdrey's partner Lambert.
Rosenstein won’t touch this with a ten-foot pole because the prosecutors were pissed when Holder-Lynch stopped them before.
That was before we learned Rosenstein is up to his eyeballs in Uranium 1.
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