A Hagerstown, Md., man acknowledged approving substandard concrete products used in construction projects on Interstate 70 and the Capital Beltway.
Santos Rivas pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to three counts of making false statements, U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said. The 32-year-old faces up to 15 years in prison and $750,000 in fines at his sentencing Dec. 19.
As the quality-control director at Frederick Precast Concrete Inc. of Greencastle, Pa., Rivas signed off on the products, which were used at the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and an Interstate 70 interchange in Frederick County
The investigation began in 2007 when a worker noticed that a structure from Frederick Precast had cracked open at the I-70 job site.
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