WASHINGTON – A *former government contractor pleaded guilty Monday toaccepting illegal kickbacks from an Afghan company in exchange forassistance in obtaining US government subcontracts, the Department ofJustice said.*

According to a Washington Times report, Christopher McCray, 55, pleadedguilty to one count of accepting illegal kickbacks. He entered his pleabefore US District Judge Mark H. Cohen of the Northern District of Georgia.

McCray will be sentenced on June 14.

The Washington Times reported McCray admitted he managed subcontracts foran American company that moved cargo for the Army and Air Force from BagramAirfield to military bases throughout Afghanistan.

When the contractor needed McCray to take a bigger role in thedistribution, he could influence the choice of subcontractor picked for thejob, the Justice Department said.

McCray’s employer eventually entered into an agreement with an Afghancompany that secretly agreed to give McCray 15 percent of the revenues inkickbacks, court documents alleged.

McCray admitted that he received secret payments from December 2012 to May2014 and that he and the Afghan trucking company maintained separateinvoices so the deal could not be detected.