Owners and managers of four Oklahoma erosion control contractors pleaded guilty in a bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracy that prosecutors say targeted more than $100 million in publicly funded contracts.
Stanley Mark Smith, the owner of a company operating out of Claremore and Catoosa, Okla., pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. His plea followed similar moves last fall by Roy Henry Heinrich, the former owner and officer of a contractor based in El Reno, Okla.; Ryan Ashley Sullivan, an owner and executive at a Lawton, Okla.-based company; and James Travis Feazel, a former operations manager at a company in Weatherford, Okla.