LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —
The former CSEPP Director charged with defrauding federal money was sentenced in London’s U.S. District Court on Wednesday.
Brian Reams, 44, of London, will serve an 18-month sentence and will have to repay $241,000 in restitution to the United States. Reams was charged with rigging bids to establish emergency response stations in Laurel and adjoining counties during 2006 and 2007. He and his girlfriend, Melody Vess, established a fraudulent company and submitted bids to obtain federal grant money meant to supply equipment for a CSEPP (Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program) to assist in the event of a chemical leakage from the chemical weapons storage in Madison County.
Without disclosing his relationship with Vess, whom Reams later married, the couple obtained funding to establish the CSEPP facility. However, an audit in 2008 revealed that the equipment and supplies were not of the quality that the grant money called for.
Reams will now have to repay the government for the difference in the equipment ordered and the money received to obtain that equipment in the amount of $241,000. Melody Vess Reams pled guilty to her role in the conspiracy last year and was ordered to repay $215,134. She will remain on probation for three years.
njohnson@sentinel-echo.com
Local News
April 16, 2012
Former CSEPP director sentenced
Reams to pay $241,000 in restitution
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