May
2012
Thursday, October 06, 2011
John Rudolf, Huffington Post

Corps of Engineers Busted For Massive Fraud

Huffington Post reports that federal prosecutors charged two bigwigs at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for screwing the government out of $20 million through a "brazen" bribery and kickback scheme.

[Huffpo] Prosecutors identified the mastermind of the scheme as Kerry F. Khan, 53, of Alexandria, Va., a program manager at the Army Corps' Washington, D.C., headquarters. According to the 42-page indictment, Khan controlled a dizzying array of shell companies, which were used to mask millions of dollars being skimmed off inflated federal contracts paid to a Dulles, Va., technology firm.

The article describes the scope of the fraud as "one of the most brazen corruption schemes in the history of federal contracting".

Somehow we doubt that it is the last that will be uncovered.

Posted by Editor on 10/06/11 at 06:36 AM •  (0) Comments

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