两名国防承包商被控贿赂陆军雇员125万美元，夏威夷创新园区合同遭污染
2026年5月20日，美国司法部宣布，两名国防承包商被联邦起诉：62岁的 Leonard Pick 住在佛罗里达州 Palm Beach Shores，59岁的 Brian Kent 住在佛罗里达州 Tampa。起诉书于5月14日在夏威夷联邦地区法院提交，5月20日解封，两人已被逮捕。
起诉书指控，2021年1月至2022年10月，两人合谋向一名美国陆军雇员行贿约125万美元，款项分五年支付，并把贿款虚增进政府合同成本。受污染的是美国陆军太平洋司令部 Hawaii-Pacific Innovation Campus 的建设与运营，该园区本应是战争部测试新技术的枢纽。起诉书还指控，Kent 在2020年9月至2022年10月间另行虚增合同成本，把约68万美元套入他个人的咨询公司。
两人各被控共谋贿赂及重大欺诈、贿赂、重大欺诈与电汇欺诈各一项，Kent 另加一项重大欺诈；其中贿赂罪最高可判15年监禁。案件由司法部反垄断司旧金山办公室与夏威夷区联邦检察官办公室起诉，联邦调查局、陆军刑事调查处、国防刑事调查局、总务管理局监察长办公室与海军刑事调查局参与调查。起诉书只是指控，两名被告在法庭证明有罪之前均被推定无罪。
Two Defense Contractors Charged in $1.25 Million Bribery Scheme Tainting Hawaii Innovation Campus Contracts
On May 20, 2026, the Justice Department announced federal charges against two defense contractors: Leonard Pick, 62, of Palm Beach Shores, Florida, and Brian Kent, 59, of Tampa, Florida. The indictment, filed May 14 in the District of Hawaii and unsealed on May 20, charges both men, who have been arrested.
The indictment alleges that from January 2021 to October 2022, Pick and Kent conspired to bribe a U.S. Army employee with approximately $1.25 million paid over five years, fraudulently inflating government contracting costs to cover the bribes. The scheme affected the construction and operation of the U.S. Army Pacific Command's Hawaii-Pacific Innovation Campus, intended as a hub for testing new Department of War technologies. Kent is further alleged, from September 2020 to October 2022, to have inflated contract costs to route approximately $680,000 to his personal consulting business.
Each defendant is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and major fraud against the United States, one count of bribery, one count of major fraud and one count of wire fraud, with Kent facing an additional major fraud count; bribery carries a maximum of 15 years in prison. The case is being prosecuted by the Antitrust Division's San Francisco Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii, with the FBI, Army Criminal Investigative Division, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, GSA Office of Inspector General and NCIS investigating. An indictment is merely an allegation, and both defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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