American Composite Timbers (ACT), a firm engaged in the sale of plastic marine pilings and related products, located in Commack, N.Y., pleaded guilty to a one-count felony charge filed in U.S. District Court in Islip, N.Y. ACT is charged with facilitating payments from a co-conspirator corporation, a Virginia-based marine products firm, to a former employee of the city of New York, Charles N. Kriss. In exchange for the payments, Kriss ensured that the co-conspirator corporation received orders to supply plastic pilings for a project to repair Pier 86, which was overseen by the city of . Kriss further ensured the co-conspirator corporation kept ACT as the distributor of the pilings.