Federal prosecutors in San Diego have dropped their criminal case against the third and final defense contractor who was charged with allegedly bribing a civilian Navy employee as part of a wide-ranging corruption scheme centered on San Diego’s Naval Information Warfare Center.
Prosecutors cited evidentiary issues tied to two key witnesses as their reason for seeking to dismiss the charges against Cask Technologies LLC and one of its former executives, Mark Larsen. Cask and Larsen had been indicted on charges of bribing the San Diego-based civilian Navy employee in exchange for lucrative contracts as part of an alleged conspiracy.
A federal judge in San Diego granted the prosecutors’ request to dismiss the case against Larsen and Cask…