A federal jury convicted a former executive at an engineered construction products firm Feb. 1 for his role in a bid-rigging scheme that targeted the North Carolina Dept. of Transportation.
Brent Brewbaker was an executive at the West Chester, Ohio-based Contech Engineered Solutions LLC when he was accused and convicted of conspiring to rig bids and submit false certifications of non-collusion for more than 300 NCDOT aluminum structure projects between 2009 and 2018. The US Justice Dept. said evidence showed that he told another conspirator to submit non-competitive bids. In attempts to hide the fraud, he instructed the unnamed co-conspirator to vary amounts of the inflated bids, and said he would delete text messages about the scheme.