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Seven Plead Guilty in Wide-Ranging Corruption Scheme at the Naval Fleet Readiness Center in San Diego

By Forseti | Filed in Civilian Contractors, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, U.S. Navy
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As part of the conspiracy, defense contractors provided Navy officials with over one million dollars in personal benefits, including cash, checks, retail gift cards, flat screen television sets, luxury massage chairs, home furniture and appliances, bicycles costing thousands of dollars, model airplanes, and home remodeling services. In return, the Navy officials placed millions of dollars in fraudulent orders with the defense contractors.

(DoJ) – March 28, 2012 – United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced today that seven individuals, four Navy officials, , , and , and three defense contractors, , , and , each pleaded guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Bernard G. Skomal in connection with a wide-ranging fraud and corruption scheme at the Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, in Coronado, California.

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Everything including Saddam’s loo & other news

By Forseti | Filed in Civilian Contractors, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, Politics, Qui Tam, Reports & Investigations, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy
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Dear Committee: Main Street Says Look at Pensions
Gretchen Morgenson – (New York Times) – November 12, 2011 – The so-called supercommittee in Congress has until Nov. 23 to find more than a trillion dollars of new savings in the federal budget.

Here’s one idea: Stop reimbursing the costs of pensions and other retirement benefits at huge, and hugely profitable, defense contractors. Over 10 years, such a move could save an estimated $30 billion — the amount by which these pensions are collectively underfunded. (That figure could change, depending on pension performance.)

True, that might seem like a drop in the bucket, given that the committee’s 12 members are trying to save $1.2 trillion over all. But examining this longstanding practice seems worthy in lean times.

The government also promises to help defense companies shore up their pension funds when they become underfunded. Many of these funds have lost money in recent years in declining financial markets or on bad investments, so the bill for taxpayers has been growing.

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Jury finds Nicholas Bickle, Navy SEAL, guilty of weapons smuggling

By Forseti | Filed in Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, U.S. Navy
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(Sign On San Diego) – LAS VEGAS — October 7, 2011 –  A federal jury in Las Vegas on Friday found an active-duty Navy SEAL () guilty on 13 of 15 charges in a scheme to sell machine guns and explosives from and in the United States.

Nicholas Bickle stood in uniform as the verdict was read in U.S. District Court.

The 34-year-old petty officer was found guilty of conspiracy, weapons and explosives charges in a case that identified arms as stolen, but didn’t specify how they got into the U.S.

Bickle could face decades in prison at sentencing Jan. 20.

U.S. District Court Judge Roger Hunt allowed him to remain free until that time.

agents reported finding dozens of weapons in raids last November in Las Vegas, in Durango, Colo., and at Bickle’s apartment and a storage unit near San Diego.  (Click HERE for article)

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Navy SEAL convicted in federal arms trafficking case

Carri Geer Thevenot – (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL) – October 7, 2011 - A jury convicted Navy SEAL (SEAL Team 5) Nicholas Bickle on most counts, including conspiracy, in a federal arms trafficking case on Friday.

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Trial begins for Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle in arms trafficking scheme

By Forseti | Filed in Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, U.S. Navy
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Jury seated in Navy SEAL’s arms smuggling trial

Update 10-7-2011-Nicholas Bickle found guilty on 13 counts

Jeff German – (Las Vegas Review-Journal) – September 19, 2011 – A federal prosecutor told a jury Monday that abused the power of the Navy SEAL uniform he wore to court on the first day of his arms smuggling trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Phillip Smith said the government “brick by brick” would “build a wall of evidence” against the San Diego-based SEAL accused of smuggling machine guns, other weapons and explosives into the country from the Middle East for his own profit.

But Bickle’s San Diego defense lawyer, James Pokorny, told the jury that the government’s chief witnesses, not Bickle, will emerge during the trial as the real bad guys in the arms smuggling scheme.

“This is a case about lies, drug use and hidden agendas,” Pokorny said. “The facts that you are going to hear in this case will cause you to be filled with doubt.”

All three of Bickle’s former co-defendants — , 35, and , 36, both of Las Vegas, and , 35, of Colorado — pleaded guilty in the scheme and agreed to testify against Bickle.

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The spoils of sole sourcing & other news

By Forseti | Filed in A Soldiers Story, Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC), GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, LAWSUITS, Politics, Qui Tam, Reports & Investigations, Security Contractors, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy
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The White House is making it easier for people to press the federal government to act. It is bringing that constitutional right to petition one’s government into the digital age with a webpage, “We the People,” where people can create and sign petitions seeking the government’s action on a range of issues.

An official response is guaranteed for any petition that draws enough signatures — 5,000 names within 30 days — after it is reviewed by staff and the appropriate policy experts within the Obama administration. ~ White House Creates Website for Online Petitions (AP)

 

Ex-Blackwater guards kept working in : US cable
W.G. Dunlop – (AFP) – BAGHDAD – September 4, 2011 – A leaked US diplomatic cable says that “hundreds” of former employees of Blackwater, which was barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, later worked with other firms guarding US diplomats here.

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