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Matthew C. McPherson, 45, of Olathe, Kansas, was also ordered to pay the government back $5.5 million.

A local contractor was sentenced to two years, four months in prison for a federal crime linked to a scheme that defrauded the federal government.

A Topeka-based contractor cheated to obtain contracts between 2009 and 2018 that should have gone to firms led by disabled veterans and racial minorities. The type of scheme involved is often called “Rent-A-Vet” or “Rent-A-Minority” fraud., prosecutors said.

January 5, 2022 — An Olathe, Kansas, man who conspired with others to control construction businesses that received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government contracts, was sentenced in federal court today for defrauding the government with respect to contracts set aside for service-disabled veterans and certified minorities.