More DoD Investigations of Allegations of U.S. Contractor-Fueled Human Trafficking
Page« 1 2 ~View All~»
I find it hard to believe, after all the reports called into the DoDIG, the CID, the DCIS, all they have managed to investigate are three. Iraq was overflowing with human trafficking issues by contractor employees. POGO published and in depth report regarding human trafficking. The news media has reported on human trafficking violations. Individuals have reported instances of human trafficking. MsSparky.com has published instances of human trafficking. When will these DOD contractors be debarred. When will these DOD contractors be indicted for human trafficking? When will someone go to prison? I don’t know what more the DOJ needs for indictments, but someone needs to grow a set and indict someone! ~Ms Sparky
NICK SCHWELLENBACH – (POGO) – January 26, 2012 – It appears that Fiscal Year 2011 saw more Defense Department criminal investigations of alleged human trafficking by its contractor supply chain than in any one of the last five years, according to a Pentagon inspector general report publicly released today (it is dated January 17).
All three investigations involved or allegedly involved U.S. government contractors or subcontractors in Southwest Asia: Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.
Here’s how the inspector general describes the three cases in its report:
- The U.S. Army investigated an allegation that Philippine women were being sold into sexual and domestic servitude for DoD contractor personnel at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, and that their passports had been withheld, preventing them from leaving the country. The U.S. Army investigated allegations against an individual with no DoD or DoD-contractor affiliation, as well as three DoD contractor personnel. The investigators found sufficient evidence to support an allegation of Transnational Slavery (under the Kuwait Criminal Code) against the non-DoD individual, whose case was referred to and accepted by the Kuwait Criminal Investigation Division in September 2010. U.S. Army investigators determined that allegations against the three DoD contractor personnel were unfounded.
- The U.S. Air Force initiated an investigation on April 28, 2011, based upon information alleging that a subcontractor in Iraq was delaying the payment of salaries from its contracted drivers for a period of three to four months, withholding their passports, and coercing employees to sign employment contracts under threat of abandonment. On July 15, 2011, the information pertaining to human trafficking was passed to the office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the U.S. Embassy, in Baghdad, Iraq for investigation.
- The Defense Criminal Investigative Service had an open investigation of possible labor-related human trafficking violations by a sub-contractor in Afghanistan. As of December 2011, the investigation was ongoing.
In my testimony before Congress in November last year on whether government enforcement is lacking in this area, I summarized the public reporting of the DoD’s investigative activity of allegations of human trafficking by its contract workforce. According to publicly available Department of Justice (DOJ) reports on human trafficking enforcement, which summarize investigative activity across the federal government, there were no Defense Department investigations into trafficking in persons in 2006 and 2007. The section detailing the military’s efforts is altogether missing in the 2008 annual report. The Justice Department declined to comment on the missing section in its 2008 report when I asked the DOJ about this in 2010. In the 2009 report, the most recent available online (the report is dated July 2010), this section is also missing.
Page« 1 2 ~View All~»
Other Related Posts From Ms Sparky
- From Comfort Capsules to Human Trafficking, Schwellenbach’s Investigations ‘Ahead of the Curve’
- KBR Subcontractor Accused of Human Trafficking Continues to Win U.S. Contracts
- Is KBR guilty of Human Trafficking in…..Americans?
- KBR’s Human Trafficking Labor Contractor-See Video
- Your Tax Dollars Are Supporting Human Trafficking In Iraq
Pages: 1 2
Friday, January 27th 2012 at 6:15 am |
Why doesn’t the DoD IG reopen it’s investigation into why ITT was trafficking it’s American employees to KRH and legally, that employee was an employee of KRH who then no longer had Defense Base Act Insurance coverage ( 66% of salary coverage lost as well as the medical coverage of DBA ) And KRH did not abide by Kuwait Labor Laws and pay over time for tens of thousand of employees as required by Kuwait Labor Law at the rates they should have. Injuries were turned away from DBA coverage requirements. No LS-202 was filled out and the American suffered.
That is trafficking with the help of Contracting Officer Julie Seaba and DoD IG investigator and Cover-Up artist Mary Deese mary.deese@dodig.mil
IG ‘s are merely a whitewash. Rock Island is complicent in the DoD Contract’s theft of hundreds of millions of dollars of employee’s overtime and indemnity pay in Kuwait since 2004. On one hand they put Local Labor Law applies ( over-time ) and FAR 52.228 -3, -4, and -5 ( DBA ) insurance and then they look the other way when the contractor doesn’t comply. It is the Contracting Officer’s job and now it is the Department of Justice’s job to take the False Claim Act cases that you past employee’s file against your old companies for the recovery of your over-time pay. If you were injured – see a DBA attorney and never accept that you are not covered by DBA. Otherwise file a direct lawsuit against the Contracting Officer and file a certified claim.
Forget that anything will come from an IG.
Friday, January 27th 2012 at 12:35 pm |
Is it too hard or too embarrassing to enforce the law? The international watchdog for human trafficking, U.S. Department of State, is working directly with contractors and their management that have been linked multiple times to TIPs violations. Did we miss something in the fine print that says trafficking in persons is okay as long as you are management and have a U.S. passport? When was it announced that sex tourisim at your buddy’s brothel is a job perk for government contractors?
Friday, January 27th 2012 at 1:13 pm |
Thanks for staying on this most and vile issue, Ms. Sparky.
Sex tourism is alive and well. Many trips to and from Afghanistan, India and Dubai during the past eight years have made that abundantly clear to me. Starting with Chinese women above Chinese restaurants in Kabul to ex-pat places, to the many hotels and bars in Dubai and India, American men on the prowl for a bit of paid sex with young women who are forced into prostitution and slavery. Time to print their names and faces and plaster them all over the news here. So many wives of aid-workers, US military and contractors… welcoming their men home don’t have a clue.
Friday, January 27th 2012 at 2:22 pm |
I guess that is ONE of the things that makes me so angry. These men are exposing themselves to God know what and then bringing it home to their unsuspecting wives and girlfriends. If they want to risk catching something that is going to make their penis rot off, then so be it. I don’t want to get all the Stateside wives stirred up, because not ALL the men are buying prostitutes, but they need to be made aware of the risks.
Tuesday, January 31st 2012 at 4:52 am |
I seen it many times traveling back and forth from Dubai to Iraq. The prostitutes are right in front of the hotel. Why would you want to put your penis into somthing that has had 1000′s of men already in it? When you have a beutiful wife at home your going to see in a day or two. Then you git back in country and guys are coming back bragging about the prostitutes they had…It’s just wrong. Isn’t the reason most of us are over there is to support or wifes and families?
Thursday, February 2nd 2012 at 11:16 am |
Why does the DOD or other branches of our Govt. let these workers on our bases. In Afghanistan these workers are in management of our DFACS. American workers are so discriminated against. Most of these people could not get into the USA but can cook, serve, and live on our bases. Americans need jobs and the American companies need to hire Americans.
Thursday, February 16th 2012 at 10:33 am |
You are correct.