Woodbridge Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Obstructing Grand Jury Investigation
| U.S. Attorney’s Office November 17, 2009 |
Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GREGORY LAUGENI, 45, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to five months of imprisonment, followed by five months of home confinement with electronic monitoring, and three years of supervised release. Judge Bryant also ordered LAUGENI to pay a fine in the amount of $30,000. On June 17, 2009, LAUGENI pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice.
According to court documents and statements made in court, on April 17, 2007, in response to a subpoena issued by the grand jury, LAUGENI provided altered and falsified documents to federal agents working with a federal grand jury in Hartford. The false records included a fabricated bill of sale for a 1996 Mustang Compact Loader Skid Steer and three altered invoices, which were altered to conceal the fact that certain monies received in connection with the lease of a commercial office building at 160 Sargent Drive in New Haven had been kicked back to Donald R. Perry III, an employee of the building management company.
Perry has pleaded guilty to one count of alteration and fabrication of records in connection with a federal investigation, admitting that he willfully caused to be delivered to federal agents the fabricated bill of sale for the skid steer. The bill of sale represented that the skid steer was sold by a company Perry controlled, DMP Construction, LLC., to Solutions Unlimited, LLC, a company owned by LAUGENI, on February 25, 2005, for $9,623.75. In truth, the vehicle was not sold by DMP Construction, LLC to Solutions Unlimited, and the $9,623.75 payment was a kickback to Perry relating to the lease of 160 Sargent Drive on behalf of the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
Perry awaits sentencing.
This matter is being investigated by special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division, and the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney James G. Genco.