It's been billed as the "largest domestic bribery and bid-rigging scheme in the history of federal contracting cases.
Specifically, over a five-year period, more than $30 million was illegally siphoned from federal coffers by a ring of crooked public officials and government contractors in the D.C. area operating via bribes, kickbacks, and other dirty dealings.
A big fix, especcially in lean budget times. The plot was thickening, too a billion-dollar government contract was about to be steered illegally into favored hands in exchange for sizeable payments under the table