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Wed Mar 1, 2017, 08:45 AM Mar 2017

Feds say Navy contractor stole $13 million, but U.S. government still works with it

http://pilotonline.com/news/local/crime/feds-say-navy-contractor-stole-million-but-u-s-government/article_f0e96b82-c45c-5577-b9f9-6a2cc5ffdfbc.html

Feds say Navy contractor stole $13 million, but U.S. government still works with it

By Scott Daugherty and Robert McCabe
The Virginian-Pilot
36 min ago


A North Carolina-based defense contractor defrauded the U.S. government of more than $13.6 million over the course of a decade, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. But the government is still doing business with the company: Global Services Corp. of Fayetteville, N.C.
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In most cases, the documents also do not name the president of the defense contracting firm – who prosecutors say was the primary beneficiary of the fraud. The documents generally identify him only by the initials "PAM." On one occasion, however, prosecutors filed a document in connection with an accomplice's case that identified him as Philip A. Mearing – the president of Global Services Corp.

No charges have been filed against Mearing. His attorney, Chuck James, said that his client was aware of the investigation and that Global Services "continues to provide mission-critical support to the military."
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According to the company's website, it was established in 1997 to provide information technology support to the U.S. military. It now also helps the military with design and engineering, training, technology, logistics and other services.

The federal government awarded Global Services more than $2.3 million in contracts for the current fiscal year, according to USAspending.gov. That is down from more than $3.8 million last year and almost $4.5 million two years ago. The firm deals primarily with the Navy, federal procurement data show.
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From about 2005 through 2014, more than $13.6 million was deposited into the accounts of Global Services or an LLC based in North Carolina that was controlled by the owner and his wife, the documents said.
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