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From Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Africa,
and Latin America -- to and throughout the one-time-United States --
over the past 5 years, U.S. federal CONTRACTING has wasted,
fraudulently misspent, and shamelessly abused more than a TRILLION
DOLLARS in taxpayer monies worldwide.
With almost zero oversight, least of all by the CIA and FBI. You
know, the folks who also failed to protect you from the 9/11
attackers?
We're talking contractors like Halliburton, KBR, SAIC, DynCorp, CACI,
plus countless other no-account "vendors" who thrive on Uncle Sam's
lax audits of boondoggle projects for which "operators" can produce no
verification of work completed or even undertaken. And even most of
the finished projects are failures.
Hey, suckers! This is YOUR money we're referring to here.
Ahhh ... back to sleep ...
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"Espionage suspect had guilty plea in fraud"
"Records say scientist sought to avoid jail for overbilling NASA"
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 26, 2009
Stewart D. Nozette, the Chevy Chase scientist accused last week of
attempted espionage, pleaded guilty in January to overbilling NASA and
the Defense Department more than $265,000 for contracting work,
according to court records unsealed Friday.
Nozette, 52, was arrested last week by federal authorities and accused
of selling sensitive government secrets for $11,000 to an FBI agent
posing as an Israeli intelligence operative. He faces a sentence of up
to life in prison if convicted of attempted espionage.
It is not the first time Nozette has faced legal jeopardy. In 2006,
the NASA inspector general began investigating allegations that
Nozette's nonprofit firm, the Alliance for Competitive Technology, was
overbilling the space agency. Nozette was the founder, president and
treasurer of the firm, which he ran from his Chevy Chase house.
According to the unsealed court documents, Nozette was charged with
defrauding the government and tax evasion and pleaded guilty in
January to overbilling the government $265,205 for work he and an
employee did for NASA and the Defense Department between 2000 and
2006. Nozette admitted that he used that money to help pay personal
credit card bills, car loans and maintenance costs for his swimming
pool. He faced at least two years in prison under federal sentencing
guidelines, according to the plea papers.
The documents were sealed because Nozette was cooperating with
authorities in unrelated investigations of government corruption,
court records show.
Last year or early this year, Nozette told a colleague that he would
flee to India or Israel if the government tried to put him in jail in
the fraud case, according to law enforcement officials. He told the
colleague that he would share "everything" he knew with Israeli and
Indian officials, the authorities said.
The colleague tipped off federal investigators, who were concerned
because Nozette had ties to an Israeli aerospace firm and was working
on a lunar project being run by the Indian government. Authorities
soon launched a sting operation. By September, the FBI agent was
meeting with Nozette and exchanging cash for information through a
U.S. post office box in the District, federal officials have alleged.
Federal authorities said Nozette turned over sensitive information
about the government's defenses and its defense strategy. The Justice
Department has stressed that Israel was not accused of crimes tied to
Nozette.
Nozette's attorney, John Kiyonaga, has declined to comment. Nozette
has a detention hearing scheduled for Thursday.
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