Businessmen Convicted for Defrauding E-Rate Program

Two New Jersey businessmen have been sentenced to 27 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the E-Rate program.

"Benjamin Rowner and Jay H. Soled, former owners of DeltaNet, were also each sentenced to pay $271,716 in restitution to the Universal Service Administrative Co. (USAC), which administers the E-Rate program for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission," writes Computerworld's Grant Gross.

"Rowner and Soled, working with Leonard Douglas LaDuron, conspired to defraud the E-Rate program by submitting false and misleading statements and concealing material facts from the USAC, the DOJ said," Gross writes. "The conspiracy, which ran from 1999 to 2003, affected at least 13 schools across the country."

Click here to read the Computerworld story.