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Pete BennettMarch 28, 2022Energy Terrorism No comments

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California Software Company Executives Charged In Conspiracy To Defraud The Tennessee Valley Authority

Company Allegedly Sought More Than $300,000 in Fraudulent Incentive Payments from TVA Through Software Installation in Rutherford County Schools

NASHVILLE – A seven-count indictment unsealed Friday charged two Danville, California men with conspiracy to defraud the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) of more than $300,000, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Mary Jane Stewart for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Anthony Gigliotti, 74, the CEO of Autonomic Software, Inc., (Autonomic) was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of mail fraud, and three counts of wire fraud. Alexander Gigliotti, 36, the Vice President of Autonomic, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Both were arrested by U.S. Marshals in Danville, California on Friday and will appear in the Middle District of Tennessee at a later date for further proceedings.

According to the indictment, Autonomic was a software company located in Danville, California, which provided a variety of software to private and public sector organizations. In 2016, Autonomic installed power management software in Rutherford County school systems, in connection with TVA’s EnergyRight program, an incentive-based program designed to save energy and reduce costs through the installation of energy-saving software. To be eligible for the energy conservation funds, customers were required to pay a portion of the software materials costs.

Instead of following the program requirements, Autonomic represented to the Rutherford County School District that schools would not incur any costs associated with the software installation. Following the installation of the software, Autonomic submitted 47 invoices, totaling $588,240 to Lockheed Martin, the contract administrator of the EnergyRight program. The invoices were made out to Rutherford County Schools and represented that each school incurred costs associated with Autonomic’s software installation.

Alexander Gigliotti also sent an email to a Lockheed Martin representative in support of seeking the incentive payments from TVA, with a breakdown of an invoice regarding purported costs incurred by Rutherford County Schools, claiming that the school paid $22 per computer related to software and $8 per computer related to support. In fact, Rutherford County Schools did not incur any costs associated with any invoice from Autonomic. Lockheed Martin then mailed incentive payments to Autonomic that corresponded to each invoice.

The Autonomic software failed to function as initially represented and approximately one year after the installation, Rutherford County Schools purchased energy saving software that could effectively quantify energy savings and which cost substantially less than Autonomic’s total purported materials costs.

The indictment also alleges that Anthony Gigliotti lied to TVA agents by falsely stating that Alexander Gigliotti was not involved in any of the previous TVA or school system work.

If convicted, the defendants face up to 20 years in prison.

This case was investigated by the TVA Office of Inspector General and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sara Beth Myers.

An indictment is merely an accusation. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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Westlake Village Man Takes Stand to Deny Attacking Ex-Wife in ’99

Pete BennettJanuary 06, 2022The PG&E Consultant No comments

Westlake Village Man Takes Stand to Deny Attacking Ex-Wife in ’99

BY TRACY WILSON

NOV. 20, 2002 12 AM PThttps://www.gettyimages.com/photos/lee-mannheimer

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Cool and affable, a Westlake Village businessman Tuesday denied beating his ex-wife over the head with a heavy metal flashlight three years ago and told jurors he was home asleep when the near-fatal assault occurred.

Lee Mannheimer, 59, acknowledged that he has no alibi for the late-night hours of Sept. 11, 1999, when the attack occurred.

But he calmly denied entering the Camarillo-area home of his former spouse, Linda Morrisset, and cracking her skull during a violent rage, as she alleges.

Morrisset, a 51-year-old accountant who is now partly paralyzed and uses a wheelchair, told jurors last week that Mannheimer “bashed my head in.”

But, asked by his attorney, Greg Ramirez, whether he assaulted Morrisset, Mannheimer responded Tuesday: “No, never.”

Mannheimer was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after Morrisset awoke from a 16-day coma and identified him as her attacker. He was released from jail after prosecutors found too little evidence to file charges.

Mannheimer temporarily lost custody of his 9-year-old son amid the allegations, however, and sued his ex-wife for slander. She, in turn, sued him for assault and battery.

Lawyers have characterized the civil trial in Ventura County Superior Court as the extension of a very uncivil divorce.

But Mannheimer testified Tuesday that despite some rough patches after their breakup in 1993, he and his ex-wife got along fine and shared custody of their son, Maxx.

In fact, on the day Morrisset was attacked, Mannheimer said he spent a pleasant day with his son, taking Cub Scout photos and shopping at Universal CityWalk. He tucked the boy into bed about 9:30 p.m. and went to sleep himself an hour later, he testified.

Mannheimer said he never saw his ex-wife that day, although she contended she went to his home in a mix-up over where Maxx would spend the night.

Mannheimer said he was not aware of his former wife’s near-fatal injuries until investigators came to his office two days later.

Mannheimer also flatly denied that he asked a business associate, Anthony Gigliotti, to follow his estranged wife in mid-1993, or paid him $10,000 to make her “disappear.”

“It never happened,” Mannheimer said.

The alleged murder-for-hire plot was investigated by federal authorities and led to Gigliotti’s arrest in August 1993.

Neither Gigliotti nor Mannheimer was ever charged with a crime.

Questioned about the 1993 events, Mannheimer described Gigliotti as a friend and business associate who had expressed concern over Mannheimer’s pending divorce and the potential of losing custody of his son.

Without his knowledge, Mannheimer said, Gigliotti had tried to investigate Morrisset. He said he told Gigliotti not to get involved.

Gigliotti, a resident of Danville, Calif., also took the stand Tuesday and denied involvement in a murder-for-hire scheme.

Asked if Mannheimer, his former boss, offered to pay him $10,000 to follow Morrisset, Gigliotti scoffed and responded: “He’s the cheapest person in the world. No, he would never do that.”