Owner of AK's McCulloch Commercial Flooring Pleads Guilty

Washington, DC, October 5, 2022-"The owner of a Fairbanks, Alaska, commercial flooring company, pleaded guilty on Sept. 22 for his role in a conspiracy to provide kickbacks related to contracts for commercial flooring services at a U.S. Army Facility,” according to The National Law Review. 

“Benjamin W. McCulloch pleaded guilty to five-count felony charges filed on Aug. 25, 2022, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. According to the plea, from March 2016 to March 2021, McCullough conspired to pay kickbacks to an employee of a prime contractor related to flooring construction contracts administered by the U.S. Army at Fort Wainwright. The charges state that McCulloch conspired to inflate the costs of four flooring construction subcontracts, and then provided the proceeds to his co-conspirator as kickbacks. During the five-year scheme, McCullough paid over $100,000 in kickbacks.”

McCulloch is owner of McCulloch Commercial Flooring, Inc., founded in 2014.