Former Navy Official Sentenced in Bribery Case
A former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for accepting gifts from consultants for defense contractors in exchange for classified military procurement documents.
U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton said James E. Gaines, 64, could serve his jail time in a community facility. Hilton rejected Gaines’ request to serve the time at home.
Gaines also was placed on two years of probation and fined $5,000.
Gaines, one of the highest-ranking officials prosecuted in the four-year Operation Ill Wind investigation of Pentagon procurement fraud, was convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity, theft and conversion of government property and use of a telephone in a crime.
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