Michael W. Kilbourne pleaded guilty
Staff Writer
2011-01-19
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The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Acting Postal Inspector in Charge Keith A. Fixel of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division; and Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to his plea agreement, Kilbourne was a geologist employed to provide assistance at Lehigh Cement Company quarries, including the quarry and manufacturing plant located in Union Bridge, Maryland. Kilbourne’s duties at the Union Bridge quarry included identifying the best locations within the quarry for conducting additional limestone mining activity, which required Kilbourne to calculate the amount of ore that was likely to be obtained by excavating at a particular location, as well as the amount of non-useable dirt, rock and clay, known as “overburden,” that must be removed to mine the limestone ore. Kilbourne also made recommendations as to whether Lehigh should use its own resources or an outside contractor to conduct excavating and hauling work, and he evaluated bids submitted by outside contractors in connection with proposed excavation and hauling projects, as well as verified the accuracy of invoices submitted by the outside contractor once a contract was awarded.