A federal grand jury indicted two Indianapolis tech executives in an alleged bribery scheme that involved a high-ranking official in former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s administration at the state's Department of Human Services.

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Steven Maudlin, 59, of Indianapolis, and James Pangallo, 57, of Greenwood, were indicted on charges related to a bribery conspiracy involving IT contracts with Maryland's Human Services Department.

Maudlin is the current CEO of The Consultants Consortium Inc., which also operates under the name TCC Software Solutions in Indianapolis. Pangallo is the CFO of TCC.

Located at 1022 E 52nd St., the company provides regulatory compliance for businesses and government entities.

Also indicted was , Isabel FitzGerald, who held several roles in Maryland government including secretary of the Department of Information Technology in 2013 and 2014, and Kenneth Coffland, a Maryland contractor.

The facts of the case are as follows:

In 2008, Maryland awarded two multiyear contracts to a company identified in a news release as Company #1. One contract was a hosting contract that was worth $129 million. The second contract was an applications contract that was worth $229 million.

Prosecutors allege that FitzGerald and Coffland influenced Company #1 to hire TCC as a subcontractor, and in return, Maudlin and Pangallo would issue a percentage of the money from the subcontracts back to FitzGerald and Coffland.

The indictment also alleges that FitzGerald influenced Company #1 to issue a $253,000 work order to TCC that contained “no specified work obligations.” The indictment alleges between October and December of 2011, FitzGerald and Mauldin negotiated an agreement where FitzGerald was compensated for using her influence to convince another Company #1 subcontractor on a $27.6 million project to further subcontract work under that project to TCC.

All parties are indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges.

According to the indictment, "FitzGerald and Coffland received and agreed to receive a stream of financial benefits from Maudlin and Pangallo in exchange for FitzGerald’s performance of official acts for TCC’s benefit."

The indictment was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Stephen M. Schenning and Special Agent in Charge Gordon B. Johnson of the FBI in Baltimore.

A representative of TCC expressed "disappointed by the recent announcement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland."

"The Consultant’s Consortium has cooperated fully with the U.S. attorney’s office," wrote Marcus Barlow, a spokesman for the company, to IndyStar.

"And while we do not have access to all of the information gathered as part of an investigation into a former government official, we believe the two officers in question acted lawfully and ethically at all times.

"It’s worth noting that these are allegations against two individuals and not against the company. Furthermore, this is merely the first step in the legal process and these individuals are presumed innocent," Barlow said.

An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.

All four individuals are set to appear in Baltimore federal court Oct. 6.

Call IndyStar reporter Fatima Hussein at (317) 444-6209. Follow her on Twitter: @fatimathefatima.