The three were charged four weeks ago with conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery for Burke’s alleged agreement to award a sole-source contract to Next Jump and to help it win future Navy business, in exchange for the promise of a $500,000-a-year job and stock options after he retired.
Kim attorney William A. Burck, co-managing partner of one of Washington’s premier white-collar law firms, Quinn Emanuel, has also joined the case.
“To be clear, Mr. Kim vehemently denies any involvement in the alleged conspiracy or bribery scheme and has no intention of backing down.
We are confident he will get a fair shake from the Court and the jury and that he will ultimately be exonerated.”.
Sherwin recently represented a defendant in another recent federal Navy bribery case in which prosecutors abandoned claims of a $50 million fraud.
Virtually all federal corruption cases “are built on cooperators” to get to a top target, such as Burke, Sherwin added.
Parlatore questioned the logic of the government’s allegation that Next Jump offered a $500,000-a-year job to get a $355,000 award. »
