NATO defence ministers agreed on Wednesday the broad outlines of its next mission in Afghanistan after it completes a difficult withdrawal from its longest combat operation in 2014. "We have just endorsed the detailed concept of our non-combat mission in Afghanistan" to guide military planners as they prepare NATO's advice and training program, alliance head […]
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) investigation of large-scale corruption in Afghanistan led to the Department of Justice freezing more than $63 million in U.S. government funds, allegedly obtained through fraudulent means, located in bank accounts held in Afghanistan and in correspondent banks in the United States and abroad. The bank accounts are owned […]
Defense contractor KBR headquartered in Houston, Texas must face claims that its employees took kickbacks while shipping military equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Under a 2001 logistics (LOGCAP) agreement, the U.S. Army had given KBR, a former Halliburton subsidiary previously known as Kellogg, Brown and Root, discrete tasks to fulfill, which it could do on its […]
The Eastern District of Virginia dismissed a False Claims Act complaint brought by the government and a whistleblower, finding that the government failed to adequately plead that it relied on allegedly false marksmanship tests when it paid a government contractor. U.S. ex rel. Badr v. Triple Canopy, Inc., Case No. 1:11-cv-288 (E.D. Va. June 19, […]
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