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                               November 29, 2012

                                                                   DA 12-1912

   SENT  VIA CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

   AND EMAIL

   Mr. Willard Ross Lanham

   c/o Stephen N. Preziosi

   Law Office of Stephen N. Preziosi P.C.

   570 Seventh Avenue, Ninth Floor

   New York, NY 10018

   Re: Notice of Debarment, File No. EB-12-IH-0847

   Dear Mr. Lanham:

   The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) hereby notifies you
   that, pursuant to Section 54.8 of its rules, you are prohibited from
   participating in activities associated with or relating to the schools and
   libraries universal service support mechanism (E-Rate program) for three
   years from either the date of your receipt of this Notice of Debarment or
   of its publication in the Federal Register, whichever is earlier in time
   (Debarment Date).

   On July 27, 2012, the Commission's Enforcement Bureau (Bureau) sent you a
   Notice of Suspension and Initiation of Debarment Proceeding (Notice of
   Suspension) that was published in the Federal Register on August 13, 2012.
   The Notice of Suspension suspended you from participating in activities
   associated with or relating to the E-Rate program. It also described the
   basis for initiating debarment proceedings against you, the applicable
   debarment procedures, and the effect of debarment.

   As discussed in the Notice of Suspension, in March 2012 you were convicted
   of one count of theft of federal funds and three counts of mail fraud in
   connection with your activities as a consultant for the New York City
   Department of Education (DOE), which included managing Project Connect, an

   E-Rate funded project. As a DOE consultant, you defrauded the E-Rate
   program by, among other things, inflating consultant fees and bundling
   those charges with eligible services on invoices billed to DOE for work
   unrelated to Project Connect. As a result of your scheme, DOE was
   fraudulently billed more than $3.6 million for Project Connect between
   2002 and 2008, of which you profited approximately $1.7 million. Pursuant
   to Section 54.8(c) of the Commission's rules, your conviction of criminal
   conduct in connection with the E-Rate program is the basis for this
   debarment.

   In accordance with the Commission's debarment rules, you were required to
   file with the Commission any opposition to your suspension or its scope,
   or to your proposed debarment or its scope, no later than 30 calendar days
   from either the date of your receipt of the Notice of Suspension or of its
   publication in the Federal Register, whichever date occurred first. The
   Commission did not receive any such opposition from you.

   For the foregoing reasons, you are debarred from participating in
   activities associated with or related to the E-Rate program for three
   years from the Debarment Date. During this debarment period, you are
   excluded from participating in any activities associated with or related
   to the E-Rate program, including the receipt of funds or discounted
   services through the E-Rate program, or consulting with, assisting, or
   advising applicants or service providers regarding the E-Rate program.

   Sincerely,

   Theresa Z. Cavanaugh,

   Chief

   Investigations and Hearings Division

   Enforcement Bureau

   cc: Johnnay Schrieber, Universal Service Administrative Company (via
   e-mail)

   Rashann Duvall, Universal Service Administrative Company (via e-mail)

   Brian A. Jacobs, U. S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
   (via e-mail)

   Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., U. S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New
   York (via e-mail)

   Paul M. Krieger, U. S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
   (via e-mail)

   47 C.F.R. S: 54.8(g); see also 47 C.F.R. S: 0.111 (delegating authority to
   the Enforcement Bureau to resolve universal service suspension and
   debarment proceedings).

   Letter from Theresa Z. Cavanaugh, Chief, Investigations and Hearings
   Division, Enforcement Bureau, Federal Communications Commission to Willard
   Ross Lanham, Notice of Suspension and Initiation of Debarment Proceeding,
   27 FCC Rcd 8384 (Enf. Bur. 2012) (Attachment 1).

   77 Fed. Reg. 48154  (Aug. 13, 2012).

   Supra n. 2 at 2.

   Id. at 3.

   Id.

   47 C.F.R. S: 54.8(c).

   47 C.F.R. S:S: 54.8 (e)(3), (4). Any opposition had to be filed no later
   than August 26, 2012.

   Id. S:S: 54.8(e)(5), (g).

   Id. S:S: 54.8(a)(1), (5), (d).

   Willard Ross Lanham

   November 29, 2012

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   WASHINGTON, DC 20554

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