Veterans preference fraud puts Philly woman in jail

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A Philadelphia-based federal contracting firm’s main shareholder faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to pretending a disabled veteran controlled her company in order to secure contracts from the General Services Administration.

Regina Danko, the top shareholder of Tri-Ark Industries, pleaded guilty to charges of fraud after investigators discovered the service-disabled veteran supposedly in charge of her firm was “merely a straw person” with no connection to the contract he helped procure.

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