Former entrepreneur pleads guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States…
A dual citizen of the United States and Syria who evaded arrest for more than two decades pleaded guilty today in the District of Columbia to his role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and pay a bribe to a federal public official. According to court documents, between 1993 and 1998, Ammar Kanaan, 61, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, while working as a private sector contractor providing transportation engineering services to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) a, engaged in a scheme to provide illegal cash payments and money orders to an FHWA official.Read News