Feds Nab Former Contractor Employee in Bribery Scheme
Lauren Jeannette Diggs, 51, of Rockville, Maryland, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for her role in a bribery scheme that rocked a federal court contractor.
Diggs, a former primary alcohol and substance abuse counselor for ADR, accepted bribes from individuals charged with federal crimes to falsify urine tests. She then lied to a grand jury investigating the allegations, committing perjury.
“Lauren Jeannette Diggs took bribes to falsify drug tests of federal criminal defendants, then committed perjury before the grand jury investigating the allegations,” said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. “Providing false information to courts and grand juries undermines the integrity of the criminal justice system.”
The scheme began in January 2010, when Diggs asked co-conspirator Christopher Womack, a urine technician at ADR, to falsify urine test results in exchange for money. Womack was introduced to Diggs’ bribe-paying clients and was paid for his role in the scheme.
Over 100 individual bribe payments were made, with many of the defendants having significant criminal histories and ingesting controlled substances while on supervised release. Diggs continued to assist Womack in providing fictitious certificates to ADR clients in exchange for money, even after she was fired from ADR on December 30, 2010.
When subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury in 2012, Diggs attempted to persuade Womack to provide false testimony, saying, “There ain’t nothing else to tell them m—f—!… They have no f— proof.… You don’t know s—. Deny! Deny! Deny!… If you don’t remember no other f— word you remember that g—d— word. Deny!… Cause that’s what the f— I’m gonna do.”
Diggs was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein, Special Agent in Charge Stephen E. Vogt of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Chief Mark A. Magaw of the Prince George’s County Police Department.
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Key Facts
- State: Maryland
- Category: Drug Trafficking|Fraud & Financial Crimes|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release —
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