“A subcontractor on the troubled Interstate 287 construction project is in negotiations with federal prosecutors to plead guilty in connection with fraud on the $568 million highway reconstruction, Newsday has learned.
Yona Jimenez, 57, of Roslyn, Long Island, was indicted in October on charges that she lied about claims that her company, Global Marine Construction Supply, provided $6 million worth of steel for the project from 2006 to 2009.
Federal prosecutors said Jimenez, whose business is a certified minority-owned company under the government’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprises program, was acting as a front for a nonminority business that actually provided the steel. She profited about $60,000 from the fraud, according to her attorney, Timothy Parlatore.”
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