A former Chicago-area concrete and carpentry subcontractor has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for fronting a women’s business enterprise/disadvantaged business enterprise (WBE/DBE) fraud scheme that involved multiple major public infrastructure projects.
A jury last June convicted Elizabeth Perino for allowing her company, Lockport, Ill.-based Perdel Contracting Co., to be claimed as a subcontractor in 2011 on two Chicago-funded projects to meet WBE hiring requirements, without performing any work.