COLLEGE PARK: "A Maryland businessman convicted of plotting to pay a Russian official more than $1.5 million in bribes to get lucrative contracts for transporting uranium was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.
Mark Lambert, a former co-president and part-owner of Fulton-based Transportation Logistics International Inc., apologized to his family, friends and the court “for allowing myself to be found in this predicament.”
A jury convicted Lambert, 57, of Mount Airy, of four counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, two counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to violate the FCPA and commit wire fraud. Jurors acquitted him of three FCPA counts and one money laundering count.
Lambert’s company secured contracts to transport nuclear materials between Russia and the U.S. The radioactive material being transported could be used to generate energy in nuclear power plants or could be further enriched to become weapons-grade uranium used in nuclear arsenals, according to prosecutors."
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