Mass. Aggregates Firm Pleads Guilty to Witness Tampering

Two former executives at Aggregate Industries, formerly known as Bardon Trimount, a contracting company in Saugus, Mass., pleaded guilty in federal court to witness tampering in connection with a federal grand jury investigation.

United States Attorney Michael Sullivan; Kenneth Kaiser, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England; and Theodore Doherty, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Inspector General, Office of Investigations, announced that William Cowhig and Luigi Iuliano pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Rya Zobel. Specifically, Cowhig pleaded guilty to one felony count of witness tampering and Iuliano pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of witness tampering.

Aggregate Industries, Inc. is one of the largest suppliers of road construction products including aggregate, ready-mix concrete and bituminous concrete, in Massachusetts.

The company formerly operated under the name of Bardon Trimount Corp. until late 2000 or early 2001 when it changed its name to Aggregate Industries, Inc.

At the plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that, had the case proceeded to trial, the evidence would have proven that the owner and president of a family-owned company that produced and supplied aggregate products to customers in eastern Massachusetts, was cooperating with the federal government in an ongoing investigation concerning a bid rigging scheme involving Bardon Trimount, Cowhig and Iuliano.