On Mar 14, 1997, Francis Jones, a deputy director for the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Services for Technology program, signed a blanket purchase agreement with CI Squared -- later, Tony Fannin, a contractor, at the Channel Inn, would call it a gift. The deal would bring the company $67 million in sales over the next five years. In 1998, an anonymous tipster had alerted the Defense Department Inspector General's Office to possible wrongdoing by a federal employee and a contractor that Jones and Neal had traveled with. After a week of testimony from witnesses and government officials, the jury found Neal and Jones guilty of extortion, accepting bribes and fraud, among other charges. Matthew Friedrich, the assistant US attorney who prosecuted the case, called it t...
A new study has found continuing problems with the quality of body armor used by the U.S. Army, prompting Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, who demanded the study, to ask Pentagon officials to do a better job in testing equipment that's supposed to protect the troops. The study -- the fourth from the Defense Department inspector general on the body-armor controversy -- found that military officials only had "limited assurance" that seven contracts issued between 2004 and 2006 provided body armor that met specifications.
A recent report faults a national defense contractor and U.S. military officials for failing to comply with and enforce workplace safety standards as Americans - including 122 members of the West Virginia National Guard - were exposed to a cancer-causing chemical in Iraq. The report concludes a two-year investigation by the Department of Defense's Office of the Inspector General. About 1,000 U.S. Army soldiers and U.S. Army civilian employees were exposed to sodium dichromate at the Qarmat Ali water treatment plant in southeastern Iraq, near Basra.
The general picked to command U.S. forces in Afghanistan privately warned superiors in 2004 that Army Ranger Cpl. Patrick Tillman may have been accidentally killed by his comrades, even as he approved a Silver Star recommendation that inaccurately portrayed the ex-football star as having died from enemy fire, documents show. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal was cited by a Defense Department inspector general's report for being "accountable for the inaccurate and misleading assertions" contained in the medal citation, but he escaped punishment in an episode that scarred the Pentagon's credibility and upset the Tillman family.
WASHINGTON - The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S. troops, the Defense Department's inspector general found. The Pentagon report focused on seven Army contracts for the plates, known as ballistic inserts, awarded between 2004 and 2006 and totaling $2.5 billion. The inspector general's audit, carried out over a two-year period ending in March, found the tests were incomplete, conducted with the wrong size plates or relied on ballistic test rounds that were inconsistent. Due to the demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tests under certain temperatures and altitudes were scrapped.
KERN: The answer is on the eight, those are the ones that we could document. Whether there's more or not and who from other government agencies in the total picture brought them in there, we can't be explicit. And that's why we asked the Department of Defense inspector general to do that with the other agencies. If there's more than one that potentially is involved, we can't tell.
Starting in 2001, the level of suspected fraud detected in the Military Card Program drew congressional interest and resulted in General Accounting Office as well as Department of Defense Inspector General scrutiny. Here, Flesch looks at the use of suspension and debarment as administrative remedies to protect the federal procurement system from active duty soldiers who are non-responsible by virtue of their misconduct in the procurement system. Additionally, he also addresses the need to report such misconduct so as to trigger review by the relevant procurement fraud offices.
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