A contractor pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit an offense against the United States by paying over $465,000 in kickbacks. The defendant, Ilya Zagaryuk, 40, of Damascus, Oregon, owned a company that contracted and subcontracted to perform facilities repairs on dozens of U.S. Postal Service facilities in Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Washington. According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento, California, from May 2022 to February 2024, Zagaryuk paid his co-conspirator, who was an employee of a prime contractor on U.S. Postal Service projects, over $465,000 in illegal kickbacks
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