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US: Business man charged in bid-rigging scheme against Con Edison

By  |  February 3, 2016

A businessman from Staten Island has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for paying bribes and trying to defraud Con Edison in a bid-rigging scheme, authorities said.

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    Andrew Martingano, who owned American Pipe Bending and Fabrication Co. Inc. in Edison, N.J., is also on the hook, along with the company and other conspirators, to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution to the utility, said authorities.

    American Pipe Bending was also fined $150,000.

    The conspiracy occurred between January 2009 and August 2010, said the U.S. Justice Department.

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