Razak Dosunmu Sentenced for $2M Bribe to DoD Official

Razak A. Dosunmu, 61, of Washington, D.C., is going to prison for trying to buy his way into a billion-dollar defense contract. Today, the businessman was sentenced to 15 months behind bars after a federal jury found him guilty of offering millions in bribes to a U.S. Department of Defense procurement official. The scheme centered on lucrative aviation fuel supply deals managed by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), contracts that could have pumped over $1 billion through his company.

Dosunmu, owner of United Globe Auto Body, LLC in Takoma Park, Maryland, wasn’t fixing classic cars when he should’ve been. Instead, from mid-2014 onward, he aggressively pursued government energy contracts through DLA-Energy—the Pentagon’s fuel procurement arm. By May 2015, federal investigators were alerted that Dosunmu had offered to buy a DLA procurement officer a house in exchange for awarding United Globe a major supply contract. That tip launched a six-month sting operation.

The procurement official, cooperating with law enforcement, wore a wire and recorded multiple conversations with Dosunmu. The tapes captured the defendant chasing two massive contracts—one to supply aviation fuel for U.S. military operations in the Middle East. Over weeks, Dosunmu upped the ante: he proposed a $2 million cash payoff, a house, and percentage points on future contracts—all in exchange for official government action.

But it wasn’t just the money that sealed his fate. Dosunmu discussed how to hide the illicit arrangement, including laundering payments and using shell transactions to disguise bribes as legitimate business fees. These recordings, backed by documents and witness testimony, laid bare a calculated effort to corrupt a critical link in the nation’s defense supply chain.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Hanly and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward P. Sullivan. After sentencing by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga, officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), and the FBI’s Washington Field Office confirmed the conviction as a strike against systemic corruption in federal contracting.

Dosunmu’s fall is a warning to contractors who think they can grease their way into Pentagon deals. With contracts worth billions at stake, the feds are watching—and listening. Court records, including Case No. 1:16-cr-54, are available through the Eastern District of Virginia’s court docket and PACER.