An owner of an engineering firm, Fazullah Khan, 58, of Troy,
was convicted today by a jury on all four counts of bribery with which he was
charged, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
Schneider was joined in the announcement by Timothy R.
Slater, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Office of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation.
The five day trial was conducted before United States
District Judge Robert H. Cleland in Port Huron, Michigan. The jury deliberated approximately an hour
and a half before returning their guilty verdicts.
According to evidence presented at trial, in 2014, Khan
bribed one public official of Washington Township with $10,000 in cash in
return for a million dollar per year engineering contract, and another public
official there with a secret financial interest in a property development deal
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for his assistance with the contract and
efforts to get water and sewer lines to Khan’s property. Unbeknownst to Khan, both township officials
that he was trying to bribe were working with the FBI.
“Our office is continuing our battle against bribery and
corruption every day, and the jury’s guilty verdict shows the people of
Michigan won’t stand for this corruption, either,” United States Attorney
Matthew Schneider stated.
This case is part of the government’s wide-ranging
corruption investigation centered in Macomb County, Michigan. The investigation of this case was conducted
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys R. Michael
Bullotta and Steven Cares.
The conviction of Khan brings to 22 the number of
individuals convicted in this corruption investigation.
Each of the four bribery charges carries a maximum sentence
of 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 Khan is scheduled to be
sentenced by Judge Cleland on November 28, 2019
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