RICHLAND — Most of the remaining defendants in a federal fraud case involving the Hanford Nuclear Reservation will likely receive little to no jail time due to their cooperation with the prosecution.
The Tri-City Herald reports that all 10 of the former CH2M-Hill Hanford Group workers waiting to be sentenced provided substantial assistance in the investigation of timecard fraud.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern Washington District has said it will recommend reduced sentences for nine of the defendants. At most, the prosecution will recommend four separate 48-hour periods of confinement, possibly on weekends.
The Hanford group held the Department of Energy’s tank farm contract at Hanford from 1999 to 2008. CH2M agreed in 2013 to pay $18.5 million to settle civil and criminal allegations of fraud.
