Heath E. Combs — Furniture Today,
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WALDRON, Ind.\u00c2\u00a0— Alvan Vance McQueen II, former president of rustic furniture manufacturer Flat Rock Furniture, will spend a year and a day in prison after pleading guilty in April to bribing a former U.S. Army employee to inflate contracts at an Alpine military resort in Germany.<\/p>\n
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, McQueen also was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis to a one year of supervision after his release and to pay restitution of $80,000 and a fine of $23,500.
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His wife, Amy McQueen, has replaced him as president and CEO of Flat Rock.<\/p>\n
According to the charges, Alvan McQueen paid Steven Potoski, a former a civilian Army employee who was director of contracting for the Edelweiss Lodge and Resort Armed Forces Recreation Center, $43,000 in cash and hotel rooms, airfare and tickets to the Indianapolis 500, in return approving the purchase of certain items at prices inflated by $80,000.<\/p>\n
McQueen also passed $100,000 in cash to an undercover agent posing as Potoski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s successor as part of a separate scheme to inflate certain line items by $200,000 in a purported contract, the charges said.<\/p>\n
Potoski is accused of accepting more than $350,000 in bribes from at least 15 contractors and subcontractors.<\/p>\n
According to press reports, U.S. District Judge David F. Hamilton described McQueen as an upstanding citizen who was sucked into Potoski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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