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They communicated by telephone and e-mail between
California and St. Louis in code on a regular basis,
Boozer frequently requesting “Isle 5”, a coded reference
to a “price check on aisle 5”, understood by Anderson to
be a request for historical price information and
competitor bid information. Anderson gave the information to Boozer to be
used in preparing and submitting bids on behalf of Globe
Dynamics in response to approximately sixteen different
Boeing requests for quotes relative to those various
purchase orders, in exchange for cash payments. Of the
sixteen bids Globe Dynamics was awarded seven purchase
orders to supply United States military aircraft
parts to Boeing totaling in excess of $1,500,000. The
net benefit to Globe Dynamics on those seven purchase
orders was approximately $116,339.
Beginning in May 2011 and continuing through April 2013,
Deon Anderson provided J.L. Manufacturing, through
Lavelle and Diaz, non-public competitor bid information
and historical price information in connection with one
and more Boeing military aircraft part purchase order
requests for quotes. Lavelle used that information in
preparing and submitting bids on behalf of J.L.
Manufacturing to Boeing for approximately nine different
Boeing requests for quotes relative to those various
purchase orders. Of the those nine, J.L. Manufacturing
was awarded seven purchase orders to supply United
States military aircraft parts to Boeing totaling in
excess of orders totaled approximately $2,052,746. In
exchange for that information they made cash payments to
Anderson in St. Louis
and in
California.
Relative to the cash bribe payments he received, on more
than one occasion Deon Anderson, 48, structured cash
deposits into his personal checking account to conceal
his bribe scheme. Anderson, pled guilty to
three felony counts of mail fraud, one felony count of
wire fraud, and one felony count of currency structuring
in June. William
P. Boozer, 60, and Robert Diaz, Jr., 55, also previously
pled guilty to related charges. They appeared on Monday
for sentencing before United States District Judge Henry
Autrey, in St.
Louis. Jeffrey Lavelle, 53, is
scheduled for sentencing November 17, 2014.
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