MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A former U.S. Bureau of Land Management official has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for a scheme that cost the government nearly half a million dollars.
U.S. District Judge Owen Panner on Monday also ordered Luis Ramirez to repay the BLM the money he swindled while working as a contract administrator from 2004 to 2007.
The government says the 57-year-old manipulated contracts and used a series of wire transactions to funnel money to himself.
Prosecutors say he used the proceeds for travel abroad, a condo in the Bahamas, remodeling his Medford home and a college education for his son.
