Portsmouth Man To Admit Lying to FBI During Navy Kickback Probe

A Portsmouth man who admitted in June to being involved in an alleged  has agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation. 

, 57, of Portsmouth, a sub-contractor, admitted this past June he was the conduit in the alleged kickbacks of naval funds from Advanced Solutions for Tomorrow (ASFT), a Middletown company, to .

Spencer has now agreed to plead guilty to lying to the FBI on three occasions during the investigation into the alleged kickback scheme, according U.S. Attorney Peter Neronha and Richard Deslauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston Field Office. 

Spencer allegedly made the false statements to the FBI from September to January during the probe.

Spencer is awaiting sentencing on the charge of conspiracy to commit bribery. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 21.

Mariano, 53, of Arlington, VA, has been charged with receiving a bribe as a public official.

Anjan Dutta-Gupta, 59, of Roswell, GA, founder and president of ASFT, pleaded guilty in federal court in April to paying bribes to ensure payment and additional funding to existing Naval contracts and work orders for work purportedly to be performed at ASFT. Dutta-Gupta is scheduled to be sentenced on June 21. 

Patrick Nagle, 51, of Marietta, GA, a former senior vice president and director of contracts for ASFT, pleaded guilty in August to information charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9. 

An information is merely an allegation and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Andrew J. Reich, Lee H. Vilker and Terrence P. Donnelly serve as prosecutors for the cases.