Statement of FACTS that SPFPA Pres David L. Hickey Cannot Deny
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STATEMENT OF FACTS SPFPA President David L. Hickey CANNOT DENY!
International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA). is a labor organization based in Roseville, Michigan that represents protective security officers at federal workplaces. Pursuant to that representation, SPFPA executed collective bargaining agreements with several employers covering the security industry in several states.
2. Since at least 2010 until November 2023, Ricky O'Quinn served as both an officer and employee of SPFPA, first as vice-president of Region 2 of SPFPA, which covered several states in the southeastern United States, and later as vice-president at large in SPFPA, its second highest position.
3. Company-1 is an Alabama corporation, with headquarters in Herndon, Virginia, engaged in the business of providing protective security officers at federal workplaces in numerous states. From at least 2010 to 2023, Individual-1 was the president of Company-1.
4. SPFPA represented, sought to represent, and would admit to membership the employees of Company-1. For example, on or about April 2018, Company-1 executed a collective bargaining agreement with SPFPA for a term from April 2018 through April 2021 covering private security guards employed by Company-1 in Louisiana.
5. Company-2 is a Florida corporation engaged in the business of providing protective security officers at federal workplaces in numerous states. Mabel O'Quinn, the wife of Ricky O’Quinn, was the founder, incorporator, and an initial director of Company-2. From its incorporation to the present, Mabel O’Quinn served as Company-2’s chief executive officer and president. Ricky O’Quinn was involved in the finance, budget, and operations of Company-2 since its inception in a clandestine role. Both Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn endeavored to hide SPFPA Rick’s involvement in operating Company-2.
6. SPFPA represented, sought to represent, and would admit to membership the employees of Coinpany-2. For example, on or about October 2018, Company-2 executed a collective bargaining agreement with SPFPA for term from October 2018 through October 2021 covering private security guards employed by Company-2 in West Virginia. Similarly, on or about October 2021, Company-2 executed a collective bargaining agreement with SPFPA for term from October 2021 through October 2024, covering private security guards employed by Company-2 in West Virginia.
7. Beginning at least as early as April 2013, and continuing at least through June 2024, Individual-1, acting on behalf of Company-1, agreed to award subcontracts from Company-1 to supply private security guards at various federal installations in the United States to Company-2. The proceeds from those awards within those subcontracts from Company-1 to Company-2 to provide security guards totaled tens of millions of dollars. Individual-1 made those awards knowing that Ricky O’Quinn was an officer and employee of SPFPA which represented the employees of Company-1, and that Ricky O’Quinn was married to Mabel O’Quinn. Ricky O’ Quinn and Mabel O’Quinn agreed to accept those subcontracts, and their proceeds, on behalf of Company-2.
For example, on or about August 2017, Individual-1, on behalf of Company-1, and Mabel O’Quinn, on behalf of Company-2, executed a subcontract whereby Company-2 would supply protective security officers for Company-1 as the prime contractor with United States Department of Homeland Services at federal workplaces in Southern Virginia.
Similarly, on or about October 2019, Individual-1 on behalf of Company-1, and Mabel O’Quinn, on behalf of Company-2, executed a subcontract whereby Company-2 as subcontractor would supply protective security officers for Company-1 as the prime contractor with United States Department of Homeland Services, Federal Protective Service at federal workplaces in Louisiana.
On or about October 2021, Individual-1, on behalf ofCompany-1, and Mabel O’Quinn, on behalf of Company-2, executed a subcontract whereby Company-2 would supply protective security officers for Company-1 as the prime contractor with United States Department of Homeland Services at federal workplaces in New England.
In 2005, Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn formed the O’Quinn Family Trust with themselves as trustees. The beneficiaries of the O’Quinn Family Trust were Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn.
Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn opened bank accounts in the name of O’Quinn Family Trust with Bank of America. From 2018 to 2023, Company-2 had a gross income of $7,044,722 Million dollars.
SPFPA VP Ricky O’Quinn benefitted from those funds deposited to those accounts from Company-1, using them for his own personal benefit and the benefit of his family.
12. In addition, Mabel O’Quinn deposited her salary as chief executive officer and president of Company-2, totaling more than $4 million from 2015 through 2023 into the bank accounts for the O’Quinn Family Trust at Bank of America. SPFPA Ricky O’Quinn benefitted from the funds deposited to those accounts from Company-2, using them for his own personal benefit and the benefit of his family.
13. Beginning in 2010 when Company-2 was formed, Individual-1 had an unwritten, agreement with the O’Quinn's that his family would receive 40 percent of the ownership and/or profits of Company-2. From that date forward, Individual-1 would exercise hidden influence of many of Company-2’s decisions and operations. For example, Individual-1 advised Company-2 to refrain from bidding on private security contracts, and only to bid in conjunction with Company Individual-1 also specified which vendors and consultants Company-2 would hire and monitored and directed Company-2’s finances.
14. In exchange for this hidden 40 percent interest and control of Company-2, Individual1 directed lucrative subcontracts on behalf of Company-1 as its president to Company-2. Individual-1 also agreed to support Company-2 and ensure that they would be able to win prime contracts to supply security guards at federal workplaces. Individual-I’s secret intercession of behalf of Coinpany-2 resulted in Company-2 being awarded more than $170 million in contract proceeds as a subcontractor to Company-1, and beginning in April 2015, as a prime contractor with Company-1 as its subcontractor. Both Individual-1 and the O’Quinn's understood that any involvement or interest by Ricky O’Quinn in Company-2 was also to be kept secret as it would he was legally prohibited from deriving any money or things of value from Company-1 or Company 2 as an officer in SPFPA.
The payment of 40 percent of Company-2’s profits from Mabel and Ricky O’Quinn to Individual-l’s family was, in part, for the purpose of improperly obtaining and rewarding favorable treatment from Coinpany-1 and lndividual-1 in connection with the awarding of prime contracts and subcontracts relating to prime contracts to Company-2.
15. In January 2015, Individual-1 and another family member (lndividual-2) incorporated MCKHU, Inc. Two ofIndividual-l’s other family members (Individual-3 and Individual-4), both Company-1 employees, would thereafter operate a side business under the name, MCKFIU, Inc. Individual-1 directed the O’Quinns to hire MCKFIU, Inc. as a consultant to Company-2. On April 1, 2015, Individual-2 on behalf of MCKHU, Inc. and Mabel O’Quinn on behalf of Company-2 executed a consultancy agreement where Company-2 would pay MCKHU, Inc. $195 per hour for service.
17. A portion of the each of those payments from Company-2 to MCKHU, Inc. constituted payments made to Individual-!’s family according to the unwritten agreement to provide 40 percent of the ownership and/or profits of Company-2.
18. On January 1, 2019, Mabel O’Quinn, on behalf of Company-2, signed an agreement with a company called Frontline Source for consultancy services at a rate of $225.00 per hour. In August 2019, Individual-1 ’s family incorporated Frontline Source as a vehicle for Individual-1 ’s family to continue to receive payments from Company-2 according to the unwritten agreement to provide 40 percent of the ownership and/or profits of Company-2. In 2019 and 2020, Individual3 and Individual-4 remained full time employees of Company-1 as well as consultants to Company-2 through Frontline Source. The use of the corporate structure and name, Frontline Source, like MCKHU, Inc. before it, was intended to obscure the fact that Individual-l’s family was receiving payments from Company-2.
19. From February to December 2019, Company-2 paid $498,543.35 to Frontline Source—the equivalent of 1,994 hours, or nearly one year of fulltime work. In 2020, Company-2 paid $770,793.75 to Frontline Source. In 2021, Company-2 paid $771,300.00 to Frontline Source. Those payments from Company-2 to Individiial-3 and lndividual-4 through Frontline Source, Inc., in part, constituted payments made to Individual-I’s according to the unwritten agreement to provide 40 percent of the ownership and/or profits of Company-2.
20. In December 2021, Individual-l’s family and O’Quinn's were in a dispute over the amount of “equity payments” Individual-I’s family were due according to the unwritten agreement to provide 40 percent of the ownership and/or profits of Company-2. Individual-Us family informed Mabel O’Quinn that they believed they were owed an additional $800,000 in “equity payments” from beyond what Individual-3 and Individual-4 had received through MCKHU, Inc. and Frontline Source. On December 6,2021, Individual-3 and Individual-4 sent an email to Mabel O’Quinn stating that she had accumulated $4,860,000 in equity in Company-2 while “MCKHU/Frontline” had accumulated only $4,016,000.
21. The December 6, 2021 email sent by Individual-3 added that, “[Would you like to adjust your salary at all? It’s always a balance of how much you want to keep in the company as retained earnings (equity) versus how much you would like to receive in your personal bank account now as salary.” In the year 2020, Mabel O’Quinn declared a salary of Company-2 of $520,000 and total business equity as $1,449,000; in the year 2021, those two figures totaled $ 1,477,926; in the year 2022, those two figures totaled $ 1,937,034; and in 2023, those two figures totaled $2,585,900.
22. Mabel O’Quinn forwarded the December 6, 2021 email to lndividuaI-1 who responded, “oh my this is cash [Company-2’ bookkeeper] did not say you have 800K on the [sic] books that is your take??” Mabel O’Quinn forwarded Individual-1’s response to Ricky O’Quinn by email.
23. In 2022, Company-2 paid an additional $426,750 to Frontline Source. In total, from 2019 to 2023, Company'-2 paid $2,541,725 to Frontline Source. The O’Quinns directed these payments to Company-1 because Company-2 would not have been able to win certain prime contracts or subcontracts without Company-1 and Individual-1 ’s support.
24. Company-2 was formed as a small business and was operated and owned by Ms. O’Quinn. By developing a business relationship with Company-2, Company-1 was able to obtain Government contracts that it would have otherwise not have been able to bid on or otherwise receive the proceeds from without Company-2’s status as a small, woman service-disabled owned business. Company-1 used Coinpany-2 as a subcontractor. Company-1 advised Company-2 on what contracts to bid on and in which geographic locations, which produced financial benefits for both companies.
Mr. Quinn, before accepting your plea of guilty, there are certain questions that I need to ask you. If you do not understand these questions, please feel free to ask either the Court or your counsel.
THE COURT: Are you aware of your right to go before a grand jury and to potentially be indicted before being forced to stand trial? THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
THE COURT: I'll direct that the waiver of indictment be made a part of the record in this matter. Have you discussed with your lawyers whether you should enter a plea of guilty or not guilty?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
THE COURT: After these discussions, did you decide for yourself to enter this plea of guilty?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes, sir. THE COURT: Are you entering this plea of guilty freely and voluntarily?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
Now that SPFPA President David L. Hickey is fully aware of former SPFPA Vice President @ Large Rick O'Quinn's CRIMINAL actions during the time when O'Quinn was an officer and employee of the International Union, Security, Police & Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) WHY hasn't Hickey and his SPFPA Executive Board taken any legal action against former Vice President @ Large Rick O'Quinn to recoup the money SPFPA paid O'Quinn while O'Quinn was employed by SPFPA?
Hickey needs to be held accountable to his members to recoup these funds!
In 2005, Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn formed the O’Quinn Family Trust with themselves as trustees. The beneficiaries of the O’Quinn Family Trust were Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn.
Ricky and Mabel O’Quinn opened bank accounts in the name of O’Quinn Family Trust with Bank of America. From 2018 to 2023, Company-2 had a gross income of $7,044,722 Million dollars
SPFPA VP Ricky O’Quinn benefitted from those funds deposited to those accounts from Company-1, using them for his own personal benefit and the benefit of his family.
In addition, Mabel O’Quinn deposited her salary as chief executive officer and president of Company-2, totaling more than $4 million from 2015 through 2023 into the bank accounts for the O’Quinn Family Trust at Bank of America. SPFPA Ricky O’Quinn benefitted from the funds deposited to those accounts from Company-2, using them for his own personal benefit and the benefit of his family.
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