By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Justice Department isn’t exactly having trouble finding fraud in the military, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Take Fabian Barrera, who made $181,000 by claiming he recruited 119 people into the military. Barrera, who was sentenced to at least three years in prison lat month, never referred any of the recruits.
With multiple conflicts worldwide, the military has a lot of money that is being questionably spent, the Justice Department has found. Cases include bribery and steering contracts to select businesses.
“The schemes we see really run the gamut from relatively small bribes paid to somebody in Afghanistan to hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of contracts being steered in the direction of a favored company who’s paying bribes,” Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in an interview.
Over the past few months, four retired and one active-duty Army National Guard officials have been charged in connection with bribery and kickback schemes.
