{"id":383999,"date":"2010-03-03T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8f26a24970b"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:45:03","slug":"man-sentenced-for-taking-kickbacks-at-los-angeles-air-force-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/383999","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for taking kickbacks at Los Angeles Air Force Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who worked at Los Angeles Air Force Base has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for taking more than $70,000 in kickbacks from subcontractors, authorities said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Rivera, 39, pleaded guilty in December to eight counts of accepting kickbacks and three counts of mail fraud. Rivera, a civilian, admitted that he\u00a0asked for and received compensation\u00a0for awarding four subcontractors lucrative\u00a0plumbing, construction and painting contracts at the Air Force base hospital.<\/p>\n<p>One of the subcontractors was an FBI source who contacted authorities in 2008 after Rivera solicited bribes.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0federal judge on Tuesday also ordered Rivera, of Los Angeles, to pay more than $38,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force base is located in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kate Linthicum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who worked at Los Angeles Air Force Base has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for taking more than $70,000 in kickbacks from subcontractors, authorities said Wednesday. Alejandro Rivera, 39, pleaded guilty in December to eight counts of accepting kickbacks and three counts of mail fraud. Rivera, a civilian, admitted that he\u00a0asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}