Your Tax $ at Work: CPA Contractor trying to Launder your Tax $$

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Custer Battles says the CPA is not a US entity so they don't have to pay back US tax $$ they stole. One of them is using his wife's maiden name to launder the money
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6080401456.html

Germany Probes Fairfax Contractor in Iraq
Prosecutor Looks Into Possible Money Laundering After $10 Million Fraud Verdict

By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 5, 2006; A20

A German prosecutor is investigating the possibility that an American contractor who was ordered to pay the government millions of dollars for cheating on a contract in Iraq may be using his wife to funnel money through foreign bank accounts, according to a letter from the prosecutor.

A federal jury ruled in March that Custer Battles LLC, which operated out of Fairfax, defrauded the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority of $3 million during work to furnish Iraq with a new currency in the first months after the invasion. The ruling was the first civil fraud verdict arising from the war effort.

The company's founders, Army veterans Mike Battles and Scott Custer, were ordered by the jury to pay more than $10 million in damages. Custer Battles has challenged the verdict, arguing that the CPA was not a U.S. entity and that federal anti-fraud law does not apply. A judge has yet to rule on the challenge, and the money has not been paid.

In a letter dated July 27, German prosecutor David Kirkpatrick revealed he had opened a criminal money-laundering investigation into the transfer of at least $2 million from Battles to his wife, Jacqueline Battles. Kirkpatrick said Jacqueline Battles, who lives in Germany, had opened "several bank accounts in the last few weeks using her maiden name Vihernik."