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Perez’s attorney, Timothy A. Scott, said his client denies the government’s charges and “looks forward to his day in court.” Isaias’ attorney declined to comment. The Forest Service suspended him in 2017, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office said.
As a fleet maintenance inspector, Isaias chose the businesses that maintained and repaired the Forest Service’s vehicles and approved payments for such work, the indictment says. Beginning no later than 2013, he steered to Perez’s business $898,528 in contracts, a majority of which the inspector personally approved, prosecutors charge.
The two would meet at Perez’s shop in Bloomington to arrange how much his business would charge the Forest Service, the indictment says. To avoid rules requiring that federal contracts exceeding $2,500 be put to bid, they divvied up large payments into smaller ones that passed beneath this threshold, according to the indictment.
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