Defendants Sentenced In Air Force Contract Fraud Case

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The four remaining defendants,  David Joseph Bolduc Jr., John G. Hancock, Karen K. Paulsen, and Rubens Wilson Fiuza Lima, in the fraud case involving former Air Force civilian employee Keith Seguin were sentenced this week in a federal court in San Antonio. 

According to the Department of Justice, David Joseph Bolduc Jr., 62, of Herndon, Virginia, was the owner and director of operations at QuantaDyn, a software engineering company that worked on Randolph Trainer Development (RTD) simulators at Randolph Air Force Base.  From 2007 through 2018, he and others paid $2,375,725.26 in bribes to Seguin in return for Seguin’s influence in obtaining government contracts and subcontracts for QuantaDyn.  Bolduc was sentenced to 120 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and ordered to pay $37,757,713.93 in restitution to the government in addition to a forfeiture of property and $8,750,775.77.

Hancock, 61, of Fairborn, Ohio, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and ordered to pay $23,769,884.41 in restitution to the government.  Hancock and co-conspirator Karen K. Paulsen aided Seguin in unlawfully manipulating the award amounts and winners of federal contracts, to corrupt contracting processes, and to defraud the Air Force, General Services Administration (GSA), and companies competing for government contracts.

Paulsen, 59, of Beaver Creek, Ohio, was sentenced for one count of conspiracy, to five years of probation with six months home confinement and 100 hours of community service during each year of probation.  She was also ordered to pay $8,015,860.00 in restitution to the government.

Rubens Wilson Fiuza Lima, 73, of Marietta, Georgia, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $653,984.20 in restitution to the government for one count of conspiracy.  As a friend of Seguin, Lima took a job as a subcontractor on an RTD contract in Texas, used his business Impex Import Export Inc.  to assist Seguin by disguising the bribe money paid to Seguin as legitimate purchases of supplies and equipment related to flight simulators.