GULFPORT — A former supervisor at Ingalls Shipbuilding has been sentenced to three years’ probation and eight months of house arrest for failing to report the fraudulent charging of time and labor for work on U.S. Coast Guard and Navy vessels at the Pascagoula shipyard.
The Sun Herald reports U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden also ordered Wednesday that 52-year-old Neil Holden, of Jackson County, to pay a $17,500 fine and a $100 special assessment fee. Holden and his former supervisor, 41-year-old Robert Gardner Jr., of Mobile, Alabama, pleaded guilty in June to misprision of felony, which means they knew a crime was being committed but failed to report it.
Investigators and prosecutors said the fraud resulted in a loss to the government of up to $11.3 million.
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