McCrann, a 37-year company veteran, accepted $90,000 worth of home renovations, and agreed to forfeit $200,000, the filing states, citing court transcripts. He agreed to forfeit $517,635, the National Grid filing states.
The memorandum says Zavada, a 33-year company employee, received "multiple recreational vehicles, hotel and travel accommodations for overseas vacations, landscaping and other personal expenses" as bribe payments, along with $300,000 in cash seized from his home. The filings don’t mention the vendors, but in response to Newsday questions last year, National Grid said it no longer did business with a Yaphank-based former construction and maintenance contractor, the East End Group, whose lawyer, Glen Kopp, has declined to comment.Įach of the former employees pleaded guilty to a violating the Travel Act, National Grid said, adding, "In other words, they knowingly and intentionally used a facility of interstate commerce to promote and carry on unlawful activity, here, commercial bribery.
Calls to the lawyers on Monday were not returned. Lawyers for some of the men, in court filings, argued against National Grid receiving restitution, noting that the company did not take issue with the government’s conclusion that found "no evidence that contract prices were inflated to facilitate kickback payments, or that National Grid ever paid more than fair market value" for the services received from vendors tied to the scheme. Two had been scheduled for sentencing last month, but it was postponed. The men, Richard Zavada, Patrick McCrann, Jevan Seepaul, Ricardo Garcia and Devraj Balbir, are awaiting sentencing. The amount National Grid is seeking is considerably more than the $1.12 million in restitution the men already have agreed to make. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.
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