WASHINGTON — A former manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a $30 million bribery and kickback scheme that authorities called historic in scope.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan called Kerry F. Khan's conduct, which included wiretapped conversations describing an assault on his mistress and a planned sexual encounter with a teenage girl, "shocking, vicious and cruel." The judge imposed a sentence four years longer than what prosecutors had recommended.