United States Attorney's Office District of Connecticut
Press Release

FORMER SECURITY OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO MAKING A FALSE STATEMENT

Kevin J. O'Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRUCE M. DARCONTE, age 44, of Rockville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to submitting false statements to the Government. United States Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel accepted DARCONTE's plea of guilty this afternoon in Bridgeport federal court.

According to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, in December 1998, Unlimited Security Incorporated of Washington, D.C., was awarded a contract by the General Services Administration ("G.S.A.") to provide security guards at federal buildings and other locations housing federal offices in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts for calendar year 1999. Under the contract, Unlimited Security was to designate a quality control inspector whose job it would be to conduct inspections at the federal sites to ensure that security guards were correctly equipped and that they knew their duties and responsibilities.

On October 6, 1999, G.S.A. requested guard post inspection reports from Unlimited Security as required under the contract. DARCONTE, Unlimited Security's contract specialist, responded that he would submit the reports. Thereafter, on October 22, 1999, DARCONTE forwarded to G.S.A. several post inspection reports signed by him, including one of an inspection purportedly conducted on September 25, 1999 at the Stamford, Connecticut Social Security Administration office. An investigation determined that the inspection reports submitted by DARCONTE were false in that he had not performed those inspections.

When he is sentenced on November 12, 2004, DARCONTE faces up to one year of imprisonment and a maximum fine of $100,000.

The case was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General of the General Services Administration and is being prosecuted by Calvin B. Kurimai.

CONTACT:

U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
Tom Carson
(203) 821-3722
thomas.carson@usdoj.gov