- Breaking News Comtec Solar and Neo Solar Power Launch the 'Perfect Wafer' Embedded 'Perfect Cell'
- Breaking News Gold hits record high 1,180 dollars
- Breaking News ABN Amro reports quarterly loss of 1 bln euros
- Breaking News Bayern coach 'suspends striker Toni'
US officer charged with bribery over Iraq contracts
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007
NEW YORK (AFP) — A US Army captain has been arrested in New York on charges of accepting kickbacks in return for steering lucrative supply contracts for the US military in Iraq, prosecutors said Thursday.
Austin Key, 27, was arrested late Wednesday and charged with one count of bribery for allegedly abusing his position as an ordering and contracting officer while stationed in Baghdad.
Key oversaw service and supply contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said, without naming his unit.
In July, Key allegedly asked an unidentified American businessman working with the US military in Iraq for 125,000 dollars to be considered for future contracts.
The businessman alerted US authorities and agreed to meet Key again wearing a...
- Getting to the root of beautiful hair: shiny, silky hair begins with a healthy scalp - includes list of resources and a recipe for an herbal scalp tonic
- Portfolio forecasting tools: what you need to know
- Made from scratch: When Honda built a plant in Alabama it also built a workforce-using local workers who had no experience in making cars - Recruitment & Hiring
- Locational determinants of foreign direct investment in an emerging market economy: Evidence from Turkey
- John Seely Brown Inducted Into 2004 Industry Hall of Fame
- Traction Named #1 Interactive Agency for 2009 by BtoB Magazine
- Banking technology, technological learning and competition: comparative case studies in Thai banking
- Why fly solo when an executive assistant can accelerate your CLNC® business?