Summary: Army Contracts Eyed for Fraud (AP)

Source: Associated Press

Summary: Army Contracts Eyed for Fraud

Friday October 26, 2007 10:31 PM

By The Associated Press

SEARCHING FOR FRAUD: A team of specially trained
investigators plans to hunker down in an Army office
north of Detroit on Monday to begin poring over hundreds
of Iraq war contracts in search of rigged deals.

FIRST PRIORITY: Investigators are starting with a sampling
of the roughly 6,000 contracts worth $2.8 billion issued
by an Army office in Kuwait.

POSSIBLE RESULTS: 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.


Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7027559,00.html

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