Saturday, December 05, 2009
Information Filed Against Wallpaper Company Owner
WEST VIRGINIA....
In a two-count information filed Friday, 63 year old Clark A. Diehl, owner of Wallpapers in Stock Inc. a Charleston company that installed wallpaper in Governor Joe Manchin's office and those of his chief deputies, has been charged in federal court with committing mail fraud in an attempt to circumvent the state's competitive bidding requirements. According to the information, in 2005, Diehl submitted three invoices from Wallpapers in Stock, and, after learning that those invoices would not be paid because they were not in compliance with the state's competitive bidding regulations, Diehl devised a scheme in which he created and submitted four written bids from two purported competing companies, for amounts of money greater than the amounts in the invoices he had already submitted, in order to make it falsely appear the State of West Virginia had obtained legally required competing bids and Wallpapers in Stock had been the lowest responsible bidder.
In a two-count information filed Friday, 63 year old Clark A. Diehl, owner of Wallpapers in Stock Inc. a Charleston company that installed wallpaper in Governor Joe Manchin's office and those of his chief deputies, has been charged in federal court with committing mail fraud in an attempt to circumvent the state's competitive bidding requirements. According to the information, in 2005, Diehl submitted three invoices from Wallpapers in Stock, and, after learning that those invoices would not be paid because they were not in compliance with the state's competitive bidding regulations, Diehl devised a scheme in which he created and submitted four written bids from two purported competing companies, for amounts of money greater than the amounts in the invoices he had already submitted, in order to make it falsely appear the State of West Virginia had obtained legally required competing bids and Wallpapers in Stock had been the lowest responsible bidder.
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