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Wright was sentenced to 36 months for a Navy contract fraud scheme.
On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Central District of California reporting said Cory Taylor Wright, 49, was sentenced to 36 months for wire fraud after a Navy loss of about $9.13 million, and restitution was ordered.
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A federal sentence after a guilty plea is the judgment on the count admitted. It is not a new trial. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, Cory Taylor Wright, 49, of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for a bid-rigging and contract-steering scheme that prosecutors said defrauded the U.S. Navy of about $9,128,515, and he was ordered to repay that amount in restitution. Wright had previously pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud.
KEYT reported that Wright served in the Navy from 1997 to 2017 and worked for the Mobile Utilities Support Equipment division at Port Hueneme. According to the plea narrative in the reporting, as he neared retirement he and Juan Carlos Aragon of Port Hueneme agreed to create Georgia-based C&C Power Solutions LLC so Aragon could use a supervisory role to steer contracts while receiving kickbacks, with Aragon later becoming a 50 percent partner. Prosecutors said the scheme ran from December 2016 to August 2022, with fraudulent invoices, fabricated bid documents, and payments for products and services C&C did not provide, including task orders tied to active combat zones.
Aragon pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official and, on Aug. 25, was sentenced to 12 months and one day plus $97,960 in restitution — that is Aragon's judgment, not Wright's Tuesday sentence. Prosecutors argued Wright's conduct was repeated procurement deception, not an isolated lapse.
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