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Quang Do, Dean Gleason and Anthony Gleason receive probation after admitting to a scheme illegally awarded snow and ice removal contracts from the Worcester MassDOT office.

(Lindsay Corcoran, MassLive.com)

WORCESTER -- When he first figured out that contracts were illegally being awarded, the contractor who tipped off the state Attorney General's office to the scheme said he didn't want to hurt those involved.

"I did make an attempt to allow all parties involved to 'bow out gracefully,'" wrote the victim in a statement to the court. "Unfortunately, you did not acquiesce. I believe your greed and arrogance got the best of you."

On Wednesday, three of the men involved in the scheme admitted to their crimes and received probation.

Dean Gleason awarded lucrative contracts to equipment owned by his brother and a friend while he was a snow and ice engineer at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) Worcester office.

In 2009, Gleason awarded a contract to Quang T. Do. Do's name was used by Anthony Gleason, 36, and Thomas Waruzila, the former director of the MassDOT office in Worcester, to hide their financial interest in the equipment.

A prosecutor from the Attorney General's office explained on Wednesday that while the front-end loader was in Do's name, it was actually purchased by Anthony Gleason and he made money from it.

In total, the state paid Do $65,000 for work done by the equipment secretly owned by Anthony Gleason and put on contract by Dean Gleason.

The contract was awarded to Do over more senior contractors, including the victim who notified the Attorney General's office of the scheme.

On Wednesday, Dean Gleason and Do admitted to sufficient facts and their cases were continued without finding for 18 months and one year, respectively.

Anthony Gleason pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in jail, though his sentence was suspended for two years. He also was ordered to be placed probation for two years and complete 75 hours of community service during that time.

Waruzila was convicted of fraud in the case after a trial last year.