Three months after he was arrested for allegedly defrauding former employers URS Corp. and STV Corp., and clients, of more than $3 million in allegedly fabricated expenses, George Papadopoulos, an engineer and former vice president of those companies, will be in court March 22 following a not guilty plea to federal fraud and larceny charges last month in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. He was released on $25,000 bail.
“As a construction project manager, Mr. Papadopoulos had authority and discretion to make expenditures and seek reimbursement for them,” says a statement released on his behalf. “He believes these expenses are within the scope of that discretion.” The statement was released by ML Strategies, a Boston communications firm that is affiliated with the law firm also based there that is representing Papadopoulos in court proceedings—Mintz Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.