Construction Company President Charged With Defrauding The State Department In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Schemes

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Construction Company President Charged With Defrauding The State Department ​

In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Schemes​

Construction Company President Charged With Defrauding The State Department In Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Schemes

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17 Jun 2025 ~~

Sina Moayedi Allegedly Paid Lucrative Bribes to State Department Insider in Exchange for Confidential Bidding Information, and Fraudulently Induced State Department to Pay His Company Approximately $100 Million
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael Speckhardt, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of State, Office of Inspector General, announced the arrest today of SINA MOAYEDI, the owner of a construction company, on charges including bribery and fraud. MOAYEDI was arrested in Castleton, Virginia, and will be presented later today in the Western District of Virginia before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel C. Hoppe.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “As alleged, Sina Moayedi made misrepresentations about his employees’ qualifications and his company’s ownership in order to induce the State Department into awarding approximately $100 million in lucrative construction contracts to Moayedi’s company, Montage, Inc. Moayedi also allegedly cultivated a State Department insider, and paid the insider lucrative bribes in exchange for confidential State Department bidding information. Moayedi must now be held accountable for his alleged brazen fraud on the government.”
Special Agent in Charge Michael Speckhardt said: “As alleged, the defendant’s scheme to undermine the Department’s procurement process for personal gain caught up with him today and he will now be held accountable. His alleged actions not only hurt other legitimate businesses competing for awards, but also damage the public’s trust in the effective and efficient utilization of taxpayer money.”

Commentary:
Mark Lenzi’s allegations expose a systemic rot—State Department bureaucrats altering reports to hide security threats? That’s not just fraud, it’s treason. When frontline embassies face directed energy attacks and D.C.’s response is to bury the data, Americans deserve answers.DOGE’s mission is clear: audit every dollar, expose every cover-up, and purge the swamp. National security can’t be a line item on some bureaucrat’s spreadsheet.If embassies are compromised, fix it. If reports are forged, prosecute it. No more games.

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Thread 'State Department Insider Exposes Multi-Million Dollar Fraud with Forged National Security Docs'

Jun 17, 2025

Oh, look, another day, another multi-million dollar fraud allegation in the government. A US security officer blowing the whistle on forged national security docs is just Tuesday’s tea.

Bet the State Department’s scrambling to sweep this under their star-spangled rug.

And yes, this is poltical. Whistle-blowing is becoming du jour.



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[wamose]

With all the criminality in our government, you would think we could easily disband enough unnecessary-corrupt departments to have a budget surplus.

 

[1srelluc]

That dude lives in the next county over from me.....I thought I recognized the name.

He and his wife have been investigated/arrested before. I remember they raided his/her place a couple of years back but it was a different property there, not the Castleton property.

They had been buying-up properties in Rappahannock Co. Virginia with their ill-gotten gains.

Construction boss pleads guilty to $200m fraud carried out over 25 years - Global Construction Review

The owner of a US contractor has pleaded guilty to bribery, conspiracy, and identity theft carried out over a quarter-century while working for the US government.

www.globalconstructionreview.com

 

[Dragonlady]

That dude lives in the next county over from me.....I thought I recognized the name.

He and his wife have been investigated/arrested before. I remember they raided his/her place a couple of years back but it was a different property there, not the Castleton property.

They had been buying-up properties in Rappahannock Co. Virginia with their ill-gotten gains.

Construction boss pleads guilty to $200m fraud carried out over 25 years - Global Construction Review

The owner of a US contractor has pleaded guilty to bribery, conspiracy, and identity theft carried out over a quarter-century while working for the US government.

www.globalconstructionreview.com

I notice his crimes are from 2016 and 2017 - when Trump was in office the first time. It appears that these charges were under investigation when Biden was in office.

The bald truth is that all big money construction is dishonest and subject to bribery. It's why I would never vote for anyone inside that business because it's all so corrupt. And I say that as someone who spent a large chunk of my professional career working in big money real estate construction.

Government contracting for construction is the WORST. Bribes and kickbacks are everywhere. Even contractors I would otherwise consider to be honest, will pay the bribes. The example cited below really happened, and the only reason I can post about it, is because the whole scheme became public.

Markham, a rapidly growing bedroom community north of Toronto, dreaming of getting a 2nd NHL team for the GTA, but they needed a bigger arena to meet NHL standards. In April, our developer client applied for 40 building permits on presold homes in a new subdivision he was developing. Someone on council took him aside and he would have to "donate" $2000 per permit, to the new arena fund or his permit applications would go to the bottom of the pile, and stay there until June 15th, when the price of sewage and water was being raised by $5000.

Our client donated $80K to the arena fund because it would cost him far more than that to delay construction by 60 days, and miss his closing dates, making unhappy customers, plus the increase impost costs.

Markham council approves public funds for NHL-size arena

Markham is one step closer to building an NHL-size arena, after its city council narrowly voted to go ahead with plans to use public money to help build the facility.

www.ctvnews.ca