The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General has announced a fourth person charged in a kickback scheme benefiting a Boston, MA ship repair business. Joseph Wing, of Stafford, New York, was has been charged today with subscribing to a false 1997 federal income tax return.
Wing also faces substantial civil liability for unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.
Wing is the fourth person charged in connection with this investigation. Allender has been separately charged with violating the Anti-Kickback Act by soliciting and accepting kickbacks from Boston Ship Repair. The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of the Inspector General, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division, the Department of Labor's Office of Investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Defense Criminal Investigative service.