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May 4, 2018 By AMK

DoD Sec: Criminal charges likely amid probe into intelligence contract

Defense Secretary James Mattis has told lawmakers it’s probable that federal officials will file criminal charges as part of an ongoing investigation into a series of contracts the Army issued to help establish security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis

The contracts were supposed to be used to help those nations build their own intelligence gathering capabilities, but audits thus far have pointed to tens of millions of dollars in potential fraud connected to at least one vendor, including for luxury vehicles and six-figure salaries paid to its employees who performed no discernible work.

The ongoing criminal investigation involves a series of agreements, beginning in 2007, that wound up costing $458 million.

According to an audit the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction published in July, the lion’s share of those funds went to a single subcontractor, New Century Consulting (NCC). But SIGAR concluded that because of poor recordkeeping and a reliance on vendors to grade their own performance, it’s almost impossible to determine whether the contracts’ objectives were ever met.

Keep reading this article at: https://federalnewsradio.com/acquisition/2018/04/mattis-criminal-charges-likely-amid-probe-into-intelligence-contract/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Afghanistan, criminal activity, DCAA, DoD, fraud, investigation, Iraq, Senate Armed Services Committee

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