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The MoneyNewsweek reports that former CPA senior adviser Franklin Willis is worried that the DoJ's reluctance to prosecute fraud in Iraq may turn Iraq into a "free-fraud zone." Transparency International notes that just $4.1 billion of the $18.7 billion appropriated by Congress for Iraq has been spent so far, and that "If urgent steps are not taken, Iraq... will become the biggest corruption scandal in history." Sen. Charles Grassley adds that if the government decides the False Claims Act doesn't apply to Iraq, "any recovery for fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars... would be prohibited." >> To read more |
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Criminal Trial of Iraq FraudFederal prosecutors says a former manager for Kellogg Brown & Root, working with an accomplice in Kuwait, defrauded the U.S. government out of nearly $4 million by inflating the price of airplane fuel. This $4 million fraud is small potatoes compared to the $1.8 billion in "unsupported costs" which auditors say they have found in KBR's $10.5 billion logistics contract >> To read more |
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"Coalition of the Billing"Left-wing syndicated columnist Molly Ivins and right-wing former Member of Congress Bob Barr agree on something: the need to come down hard on contact fraud in Iraq. Both cite the Custer-Battles "bill mill" as a case in point. In an editorial in The Los Angeles Times, Max Boot asks the larger question: why do we need any gun-toting contractors at all? |
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Shoddy WorkThe term "shoddy" originated during the Civil War and refers to a kind of inferior wool cloth that literally fell apart in the rain. "Shoddy" uniforms, common at the beginning of the war, ended with the advent of the False Claims Act -- the so-called "Lincoln Law". The world lived on, however, and came to mean any type of inferior equipment sold |
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at Fraud in Iraq?Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) wants to create a special Senate committee to investigate fraud in Iraq. "Nobody is minding the store," says Dorgan. "Massive amounts of money is being wasted in Iraq, and there is no oversight." Dorgan notes that according to the latest Inspector General report $9 billion dollars of U.S. money remains unaccounted for in Iraq. |
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