Parkville Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Defrauding NSA

A Parkville man was sentenced in federal court to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty to taking bribe money while he worked at the National Security Agency and lying about it. 

Robert Barry Adcock, 44, was also ordered by a judge to serve six months of his supervised release in home detention with electronic monitoring. Adcock will also have to perform 100 hours of community service and pay a $15,000 fine within 60 days.  He was ordered to immediately pay $4,929.90 in restitution.

According to prosecutors, Adcock took bribes to allow Baltimore-based Berg Bros. Recycling to take recyclable metals from the NSA without paying fair value for them, and lied to NSA officials about it.

According to prosecutors, Adcock was illicitly paid by Berg Bros. for copper wire, steel cabling and storage racks for large computer servers being stored at an NSA-leased facility on the Army base at Ft. Meade between late March and October 2004.

In order to divert the payments in secret, Adcock had Berg Bros. make payments to SRK Development, a dormant company founded by Adcock's father.

Once the Ft. Meade storage area was emptied, Adcock continued to recieve payments from Berg Bros. for metal recyclables for a two-year period.

By March 2006, Berg Bros. had made 39 payments, amounting to $104,989.84.

Adam Wayne Berg, who handles the finances for the recycling company located at 1401 W.  Hamburg St. in Baltimore, and Jeffrey Mark Harmon, the company's president, were named as Adcock's conspirators.

In April of 2006, Harmon began working for another metal recycler and paid Adcock an additional $4,930.70 for loads from the NSA.  In total, Adcock was able to defraud the NSA of more than $110,000.

48-year-old Berg, of Stevenson, pleaded guilty to making illicit payments to Adcock and was sentenced on June 1, 2011 to six months in prison followed by a year of supervised release. Like Adcock, Berg will serve six months of his supervised release in home detention with electronic monitoring and perform 100 hours of community service. He will be required to pay a $30,000 fine. 

Berg Bros. Recycling, Inc. was sentenced to  three years probation and ordered to pay a fine of $130,000 for making an illicit payment to an NSA employee.  The company and Adam Berg were ordered to pay restitution of $104,989.84, which has been paid in full.

44-year-old Harmon, of Windsor Mill, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make illicit payments to Adcock and was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, followed by two years of supervised release.  Harmon will serve six months of his supervised release in home detention with electronic monitoring and perform 100 hours of community service. He will be required to pay a $25,000 fine and $4,929.90 in restitution.