Tag: US Air Force
Gennady Yumshtyk, SBIR Fraud, New York 2019
⏱ 2 min read A Canadian-owned company, Advanced Global Services, and its president, Gennady Yumshtyk, have been caught in a fraud scheme involving the US Air Force and Navy’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program in New York. In 2019, the company obtained an SBIR award to develop gun barrel coating technology, but instead of…
William Wilson, Laser Pointing, Arizona 2025
⏱ 2 min read William Wilson, a 56-year-old man from Buckeye, Arizona, pleaded guilty to aiming a laser pointer at US Air Force F-35 fighter jets between September 2024 and January 2025. The reckless actions of Wilson put the lives of military pilots at risk, and he was caught after an FBI surveillance plane captured…
Jacob Michael Young, Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material, Maryland 2025
⏱ 2 min read Jacob Michael Young, a 25-year-old senior airman in the US Air Force, has pleaded guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) while stationed at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Between November 2024 and January 2025, Young uploaded approximately 56 suspected CSAM files to Kik Messenger, a messaging…
Alan Hayward James, Bid Rigging, Texas 2023
⏱ 2 min read A former US Air Force Master Sergeant, Alan Hayward James, 51, from Texas, pleaded guilty to a multi-year bid rigging scheme that defrauded the US Air Force of at least $37 million. The scheme involved inflating the cost of information technology contracts for the US Pacific Air Forces in Hawaii, with…
