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SDNY MAG COURT, July 21 – In the Magistrates Court of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 21, defendant White was presented on charged of defrauding the National Guard. Inner City Press ran to cover it, and tweeted this:

Federal Defender Andrew Dalack acknowledges that White absconded before to California.

AUSA Edward Robinson says he would have to move out of "Cityspire."

  Then Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker asked Pre-Trial Services if their view had changed. It hadn't. Judge Parker order White detained as a risk of flight.

Dalack has said the BOP is no longer sending newly incarcerated people to the MCC, so White will be in the MDC or a county jail.

According to DOJ, RAYMOND WHITE,  a/k/a “John Raymond Anthony White,” a/k/a “Raymond Alexander White,” was arrested by agents from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Army Major Procurement Fraud Unit this morning at his residence in New York, New York.  Cityspire?

Beginning on or about May 12, 2019, through at least in or about September 2020, WHITE, president and chief executive officer of a construction management and general contractor company (the “Contractor), submitted a bid to the District of Columbia Army National Guard (“DCARNG”) on a contract (the “Contract”) to build a munitions load crew training facility at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.  Between September 21, 2019, and September 30, 2019, in response to a pre-award questionnaire sent by the contract specialist, WHITE emailed several documents, including an “Independent Accountants’ Report,” a “Construction Contractor Experience Data,” and a “Firm Dossier” to the contract specialist for the DCARNG.  The contract was awarded to September 30, 2019, to the Contractor for $4,801,000.  These documents contained false financial reports regarding the Contractor’s finances, false information regarding past performance of contracts by the Contractor, and false information regarding members of the management team for the Contractor.  The contract was terminated on or about September 16, 2020, for providing false information to the DCARNG, and no construction work had been performed yet on the site.     As required by federal law, WHITE was required to obtain performance and payment bonds provided by an insurer (generally referred to in the business as a surety) for the Contract. On or about October 23, 2019, the Contractor received a performance and payment bond from a bond insurance company (the “Surety”), and the Surety required that the Contractor obtain a guarantee of the bond from the United States Small Business Administration (“SBA”), so that in the event of default on the bond, the Surety would be reimbursed 80%-90% of any loss incurred by the SBA.  In or around October 2019, WHITE emailed the SBA bond guarantee application materials to a surety bond broker to submit to the SBA.  The application materials included, among other documents, financial statements and a statement of personal history for WHITE.  These documents contained fictitious financial reports regarding the Contractor’s finances and false information regarding past contracts performed by the Contractor.  WHITE also falsely represented in the Statement of Personal History that he never had been convicted of any  criminal offense, when WHITE was previously convicted on April 21, 2011, in the Southern District of New York of mail fraud (18 USC § 1341), major fraud against the United States (18 USC § 1031), false statements (18 USC § 1001(a)), and tampering with a witness (18 USC § 1512(b)(3)).  WHITE also listed his name as “Raymond Alexander White” and provided a social security number and date of birth different from those listed in his Bureau of Prisons records.  On or about October 31, 2019, the Contractor obtained a guarantee from the SBA of 80% of the payment and performance bond.  As a result of Contract termination, the SBA has fulfilled three claims that the Surety has submitted to the SBA pursuant to the guarantee provided by the SBA to the bonds issued by the Surety, totaling $242,827.53 as of January 26, 2021.

The overall case is US v. White, 21-mj-7211 (Parker)

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