Iraq Fraud

Former Iraq Contractor Pleads Guilty To Stealing Almost $40 Million In Army Fuel

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics


ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Army contractor pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing nearly $40 million worth of jet and diesel fuel from a U.S. Army b...

Iraq Waste, Fraud Bill Comes To $13 Billion

Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics


A former Iraqi official estimated yesterday that more than $13 billion meant for reconstruction projects in Iraq was wasted or stolen through elaborat...

My Conversations with Charles Smith: the man who took on KBR

Dina Rasor | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics


Dina Rasor

Charles Smith, former chief of the Field Support Contracting Division of the Army Field Support Command, was in charge of overseeing the KBR's contra...

Audit: 98% Of Iraq Contractors Failed To Comply With Fraud Regulations

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — An internal audit of some $8 billion paid to U.S. and Iraqi contractors found that nearly every transaction failed to comply with f...

US probing Iraqi companies for insurance fraud

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Companies working on Iraq reconstruction have been accused of padding their profits through an insurance scam, leading to a crimina...

'Significant' Amount Of U.S. Funds For Iraq Funneled To Militias

Think Progress | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics


During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing today on waste, fraud and abuse in Iraq, GAO Comptroller David Walker said that "the Iraqis have a bu...

Fraud Crackdown Comes With a Loophole

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to r...

US Paid $32 Million For Iraqi Base That Was Never Built

USA Today | Matt Kelley | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics


The U.S. military paid a Florida company nearly $32 million to build barracks and offices for Iraqi army units even though nothing was ever built, Pen...

FBI Probes Iraq Inspector General On Misconduct Charges

Associated Press | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics


The FBI is investigating the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Justice Department officials said, following allegations of misconduct...

Dear Media, We Have Lost a Billion in Equipment Before

Dina Rasor | Posted 12.06.2007 | Media


Dina Rasor

People are angry now and politicians are reacting to these stories with promises of reform. But where was the outrage at the beginning of the war?