False FHWA claims land QC director home detention, steep restitution

摘要

A former director of Quality Control and Quality Assurance at Frederick Precast Concrete Inc. was sentenced to one year of home detention and ordered to pay 131,410 dollars in restitution, settling pre-trial motions with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore. The U.S. Attorney cited three instances of Santos Rivas falsely certifying that concrete products met Maryland Department of Transportation specifications covering two FHWA-funded projects for which Greencastle, Pa.-based Frederick Precast was a subcontractor: the Interstate 95/Woodrow Wilson Bridge, linking Maryland and Virginia across the Potomac Paver, and the Interstate 70 & Baltimore National Pike interchange.