Bribery Was Rampant at Bagram Airfield

[The Straight Story]

Bribery Was Rampant at Bagram Airfield

(CN) - An eighth conspirator, a former major in the Army National Guard, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for taking bribes from military contractors at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan for verifying receipt of concrete bunkers and barriers that were never delivered.

Christopher West, of Chicago, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly in Chicago. West also was ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution to the Department of Defense.

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West was deployed to Bagram from March 2004 until March 2005, where he and Lt. Robert Moore had sole responsibility for ordering, receiving and verifying the receipt of bunkers and barriers at Bagram. At the time, the base served as the central receiving point for all bunkers and barriers in Afghanistan.

Prosecutors said West and Moore conspired with the bunker and barrier contractors to inflate the number of bunkers and barriers delivered so they could profit from the Pentagon's overpayments for the nonexistent bunkers and barriers.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/12/23/42506.htm

[Confusious]

1. And what happened to the companies?

Are they still getting contracts?

did they have to pay back the money?

It was a rhetorical question. answers are probably:

nothing
yes
no

You conspire with a company, you go to jail, and the fatcat who paid you gets to sit back, count his money, drink his wine and eat his caviar.