Victor Marquez, a Maryland resident and owner of two IT companies, was charged in a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Baltimore, according to the US Department of Justice.
Prosecutors allege Marquez used inside access to sensitive procurement information to manipulate bids for large federal IT contracts, steering awards to co-conspirators in exchange for kickbacks, the Justice Department said.
“As the superseding indictment shows, defendant Victor Marquez and his co-conspirators broke trust with our military and stole millions of dollars from an agency that defends our homeland,” said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division…