WASHINGTON, D.C. (WIBW) – A Johnson County man was sentenced Thursday to 29 months in prison for fraudulently conspiring to steer and award subcontracts by a major engineering firm for work on nuclear weapons manufacturing projects, the United States Department of Justice announced Friday morning.
The projects were slated for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City National Security Campus, officials said.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Michael Clinesmith, 70, of Overland Park, solicited and received kickbacks and bribes from Richard Mueller, 65, of St. Charles, Missouri, in exchange for steering subcontracts from Clinesmith’s employer to Mueller’s company.
Clinesmith, a long-tenured employee of a major engineering firm working at the Kansas City National Security Campus, was responsible for designing and procuring gauges that were specially designed and manufactured to measure the components of nuclear weapons, officials said…