San Diego
A San Diego defense consultant was sentenced to a year in prison Friday for his role in a scheme to funnel bribes to a Marine Corps procurement official.
Donald Illeman was also fined $10,000 by U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton in Virginia on his guilty plea to bribing a public official.
Illeman, who is cooperating with the investigation of Pentagon procurement fraud dubbed “Operation Ill Wind,” admitted sharing money he received from Whittaker Command & Control Systems with Jack Sherman, the civilian Marine Corps official.
Illeman said he sent Sherman $5,000 in cash in the spring of 1988. Sherman, who has also pleaded guilty, said he took $8,000 from Illeman.
Illeman could have been sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $250,000.
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