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Saturday 24 January 2009

Contractor, Maurice Subilia, 64, of Kennebunk, is scheduled to appear at a Feb. 2 hearing in Federal District Court

Contractor, Maurice Subilia, 64, of Kennebunk, is scheduled to appear at a Feb. 2 hearing in Federal District Court, according to the newspaper, The Portland Press Herald. The agreement to plead guilty was spelled out in a court document, the newspaper reported.Mr. Subilia’s lawyer, Toby Dilworth, declined to comment.Mr. Subilia, former president of Fiber Materials Inc. in Biddeford, is accused of orchestrating a conspiracy that involved two officials at the Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala. He faces up to 20 years in prison.Prosecutors say Mr. Subilia and the officials, Michael Cantrell and Douglas Ennis, agreed to split and personally use money earmarked for missile defense contracts. Mr. Cantrell and Mr. Ennis have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing in Alabama.According to court documents, Mr. Subilia began paying bribes in 2000 to Mr. Cantrell and Mr. Ennis to steer financing to Mr. Subilia’s subcontracting companies, primarily Lealagi Inc.Most of the material delivered by Lealagi was worthless, a fact that Mr. Cantrell and Mr. Ennis covered up while continuing to funnel earmarked money to Mr. Subilia’s sham companies in return for a share of the gains, according to a summary of the offenses filed by federal prosecutors.The conspiracy continued until 2007, and the Army estimates its losses at $2.5 million to $7 million.

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