Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud

Source: AP

Army to review Iraq contracts for fraud By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press Writer
18 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - A team of specially trained investigators will hunker down in an Army office north of Detroit on Monday to begin poring over hundreds of Iraq war contracts in search for rigged awards.

This team of 10 auditors, criminal investigators and acquisition experts are starting with a sampling of the roughly 6,000 contracts worth $2.8 billion issued by an Army office in Kuwait that service officials have identified as a hub of corruption.

The office, located at Camp Arifjan, buys gear and supplies to support U.S. troops as they move in and out of Iraq. The pace of that operation has exploded since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.

Based on what the team finds, the probe may expand and the number of Army military and civilian employees accused of accepting bribes and kickbacks could grow, U.S. officials told The Associated Press. Nearly two dozen have been charged so far.



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police themselves?

hardly.

Isnt' this a bit like the fox regulating/investigating the hen house?

Oh! I forgot. They're "irrelevant" now...

Don't retired military officers usually wind up working for those same contractors?

And some TUMS. I know the stuff that's gone on there and still goes on there would be enough to turn my stomach.

We can outsource the job to them.