Ex‑Federal Finance Director Sentenced for Kickback Scheme Steering $600,000 in Contracts to a Friend

Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division

Mathieu Zahui, 59, the former Director of Financial Management at the U.S. African Development Foundation, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to four months in prison in connection with a multi-year scheme in which he steered federal contracts to a friend’s company, accepted cash payments in return, and then lied to federal investigators about it, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.