Third OCTO Guilty Plea Entered

Chalk up another guilty plea in the OCTO bribery and embezzlement case. Following in the footsteps of fellow ex-OCTO cohort Yusuf Acar, Farrukh Awan admitted his guilt in federal court on Friday, and will be sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison for his part in the kickback scandal. Awan, who was arrested in March, is the third individual to plead guilty in the scheme, in which OCTO employees took kickbacks and falsified invoices in an effort to funnel funds to Sushil Bansal's Advanced Integrated Technologies Corporation. Since form seems to be holding in these proceedings, I suppose we should expect a guilty plea from Sarosh Mir any day now.