A father, his son and his daughter were indicted on charges of fraudulently billing the National Security Agency by more than $1.4 million.
Charged were William Turley, 70, of Annapolis, Donald Turley, 53, of Owings Mills, and Christina Turley Knott, 50, of Edgewater. The family owned a manufacturing company in Upper Marlboro that made metal, plastic and sheet metal and other special items for the NSA and other customers.
According to prosecutors, the defendants instructed employees to inflate the amount of hours they spent on NSA jobs from 1997 to 2008. The father and son allegedly became aware that from 2002 through 2005, Christina Knott, the company’s bookkeeper, embezzeled about $4.5 million, but did not take action for fear that she would reveal their scheme to defraud NSA.
