What happens when America outsources its craziest security assignments to a private contractor, then throws him under the bus? The Wall Street Journal sat down — in Hong Kong — with Erik Prince, former CEO of the notorious Blackwater firm. Guess what he’s doing there? "Now, sitting in a boardroom above Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, […]
DynCorp has been hard hit by the military drawdown in Afghanistan and Iraq, with its sales dropping half by within the last year. U.S. and its allies cut orders for services such as training and maintaining military equipment and facilities to the giant defense firm. After a few questionable replacement for the executive role with […]
Today, SIGAR published an inquiry into the Tarakhil Power Plant outside of Kabul. The letter inquires as to the power plant’s ability to supply Kabul with back-up power, given the $335 million investment made by USAID, and reports of electrical shortages in Kabul following avalanches in northern Afghanistan in February 2015. The letter notes:
A former Army contractor in Iraq who helped to steal and sell more than $2.6 million in U.S. military property must serve nearly four years in prison. Stacey B. Hines pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and to theft of government property. Hines, of Lacey, Washington, was employed by Raytheon and assigned […]
According to the Department of Justice (DOJ) — IAP Worldwide Services Inc. (IAP), entered into a non-prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $7.1 million penalty to resolve the government’s investigation into whether the company conspired to bribe Kuwaiti officials in order to secure a government contract. A former vice president of IAP also pleaded guilty […]