Former vice president of American International College, Floyd Young, was sentenced yesterday to eight months in federal prision after pleading guilty to conspiracy and bribery. Additionally, he was ordered to pay $919,066 in restitution to AIC and two other colleges where he worked.

The sentence was announced by the U.S. District Attorney’s office in a press release that outlined the allegations against Young:

Young steered contracts for construction, repair, maintenance, and other work for the collegiate institutions to favored contractors who paid him bribes, typically in the amount of 15% of the contract. The contractors inflated the amount of the invoices submitted to the collegiate institutions in order to be repaid the cost of the bribe payment made to Young. In addition, as contractors received payments for work done at the collegiate institutions, they paid Young bribes on a periodic basis. On occasion, Young and the contractors arranged for no-work invoices to be submitted to the collegiate institutions and then split the payment. 

Young was prosecuted in Springfield’s federal courthouse and sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni