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Defendent Paid $20,000 Bribe in Order to Receive State Contracts
BALTIMORE, MD - Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced today
that Mark Anthony Sykes, 51, of Randallstown, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to one count of
bribery of a public employee before the Honorable Robert E. Cahill of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County.
The charge arose from illegal payments Sykes made in 2020 and 2021 to the former Director of
General Services for the Maryland Department of Labor, which were paid in exchange for help
steering state contracts to Sykes’ company, Building Enterprises LLC. Between July 2020 and
March 2021, Building Enterprises LLC received $174,903.25 from the State of Maryland for
COVID-related facilities cleaning services. The company secured those contracts through a
fraudulent procurement scheme that benefited Sykes. The investigation revealed that Sykes paid
approximately $20,000 in bribes in order to be awarded those contracts.
Sentencing is scheduled for April 29, 2025, before Judge Cahill in the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County.
The investigation into this matter is ongoing. In making today’s announcement, Attorney
General Brown thanked his Criminal Division, specifically Division Chief Katie Dorian, Fraud
and Corruption Unit Chief Alex Huggins, Chief Investigative Auditor Harry Schulz, and
Assistant Attorneys General William Elman and Alyn Pearson, who prosecuted this case.
Attorney General Brown also thanked State’s Attorney for Baltimore County Scott Shellenberger
for assisting with this prosecution.
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