GE Manager Convicted of Lying to Grand Jury
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA —
The first of three General Electric Co. managers to be tried in an $800,000 scheme to cheat the Pentagon was convicted Friday of lying to a federal grand jury.
A U.S. District Court jury convicted Joseph Calabria, 50, chief engineer at GE’s Space Systems Division, of two perjury counts. He faces 10 years in prison and a fine of $20,000 in sentencing next week.
Calabria was among five current and former GE employees indicted along with the company in a 2 1/2-year federal investigation. The company pleaded guilty May 13 to 108 counts of making false statements and claims to the government and was fined $1.04 million.
