Former Metro official sentenced in $1.3 million contract-rigging scheme

Metro’s former senior program manager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after nearly a decade of manipulating the agency’s contract process to the tune of $1.3 million.
Officials said 61-year-old Scottie Borders, of Arlington, Virginia, will pay over $430,000 in restitution and spend two additional years under supervised release after he spent more than nine years skewing the agency’s contract selection process.
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