Former government contractor faces prison time for role in kickback scheme

A former government contractor faces prison this week after admitting he concealed income from a kickback scheme that cheated taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Charles Anthony “Tony” Wehausen was indicted last year on charges that he and several of his friends doctored work orders and invoices on machinery contracts for a U.S. Health and Human Services building on Independence Avenue and a Social Security Administration building on C Street Southwest. The subcontractors who were paid under the phony invoices then shipped money back to Wehausen, according to court documents.