The government wound up paying for the wages of employees who took telephone orders and kept records at his various pizza franchises. * Operated one pizza franchise out of a building Omniplan rented for its work on the NASA contract. Rockwell should have insisted that an outside trustee run the plan, instead of Montijo, according to the lawsuit. * Embezzled money from Omniplan’s health benefits and pension plan, using some of it to buy several Papa Primo’s pizza franchises in Texas and Arizona.
Other personal expenses unwittingly paid for by NASA included a diamond bracelet, cameras, tires, luggage, membership fees in travel clubs and life insurance premiums.
* Charged for trips to Mexico, India, Nepal, Switzerland, Holland, Grand Cayman Island, Singapore, Honduras, Argentina, England and Spain. Montijo agreed to forfeit those properties when he pleaded guilty. * Billed for mortgage payments and maintenance costs on two homes in Houston and Tucson, Ariz., and a ski lodge in Mammoth Mountain, Calif. Losses to the government were said to exceed $7 million. He also inflated leasing costs for cars, telephones, graphic reproduction equipment and cameras. * Bought three commercial buildings in the Houston area and rented them to his own company, Omniplan, at inflated rates, passing on the costs to the government.
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