John Torquato Jr.

John Torquato Jr. is an American fraudster and businessman who was the ringleader of a scheme to have a $4.8 million Pennsylvania state contract to recover overpayments by state workers to the Social Security Administration awarded to his company, Computer Technology Associates Inc. Torquato provided gifts to several state and local officials and attempted to bribe the state director of Social Security for state employees David Herbert, Pittsburgh City Council President Robert Rade Stone, Pennsylvania Attorney General LeRoy Zimmerman, and Treasurer of Pennsylvania R. Budd Dwyer, with money offers ranging from $6,375 to $300,000. Had the scheme been successful, the state of Pennsylvania would have lost $6,000,000. Torquato pled guilty to one count of conspiracy and was sentenced by Williamsport District Judge Malcolm Muir to four years in federal prison in 1984.