The vice president of a Hyattsville-based construction firm was found not guilty Tuesday on a charge that he attempted to bribe a Metro official in December 2016, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Hardutt Singh, of Potomac Construction, was indicted in September on a charge he attempted to bribe the manager of Metro’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise department on Dec. 16, 2016, according to a copy of the indictment. Following a three-day trial in Prince George’s Circuit Court, a jury found Singh not guilty after less than two hours of deliberation, according to D.C.-based Price Benowitz LLP, the firm that represented Singh.
During the trial, “prosecutors played several secretly recorded conversations between Singh and FBI informant Erick Wilkes, arguing that Singh offered to pay Wilkes cash in exchange for Wilkes’ help addressing a long-standing subcontracting dispute with Metro,” the firm said in a news release. “But Singh’s attorneys, Glenn F. Ivey and Matthew Wilson, argued in court that Singh never paid Wilkes any money, and that Singh had worked successfully to resolve the dispute according to Metro’s rules.”
The case was brought following a two-year investigation that included the FBI’s Washington Field Office, inspector general’s offices for Metro and the Transportation and the Maryland state’s attorney for Prince George’s County.
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