Do a google on "Hitler Prescott Bush CIA assassination JFK MLK" this
is no lone bloggers casting mud. What you have here is exposing a
crime family that has been so powerful that only a few have been
unafraid to confront them with the truth. And few suspected how much
destruction they would reap on the U.S. and the world.
For some other useful links google on "Bush Crime Family"
The Bush Crime Family IS the "Mountain of Corruption" on which all the
other war-profiteering and government corruption lives... cut off the
head of the snake... after impeachment pursue the Bush Crime Family
until all their hidden money is gone. This may take generations. It
has taken generations for the Bush Crime Family to get here. NOVEMBER
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The latest suit says that former acting Navy Secretary Hansford Johnson
and former acting Navy Undersecretary Douglas Combs were in on a scheme
"to set up sham companies" to conceal Custer Battles's ownership and
control, according to AP.
From The Richmond Register, 7/27/06:
http://www.richmondregister.com/opinion/local_story_208090920.html?keyword=
=3Dtopstory
Easy pickings in 'free fraud zone'
By Froma Harrop
Creators Syndicate
Mike Battles -- former Republican candidate for Congress in Rhode
Island and Fox News war-on-terror analyst -- figured he could make a
quick fortune off the rebuilding of Iraq.
So he and pal Scott Custer set up a contracting firm with the catchy
name of Custer Battles.
The company proceeded to steal a cool $50 million from American
taxpayers, according to two of its former employees.
In March, Custer Battles became the first U.S. contractor to be found
liable for fraud in Iraq.
Ex-employees now accuse two former Pentagon officials of plotting with
Custer Battles to set up shell companies that, among other things, sold
arms on the Iraqi black market -- weapons that could have been used
against American troops.
These startling charges come in a sealed federal lawsuit obtained by
the Associated Press (AP).
The Iraq occupation has become a "free fraud zone," in the words of a
former top official at the Coalition Provisional Authority. Washington
has simply left the cash register open.
Hundreds of millions seem to have vanished into corrupt contractors'
pockets, according to U.S. audits.
And the government shows little passion for going after the crooks.
The only case to have gone to a jury involved a civil suit filed by
former workers.
Custer Battles had won over $100 million in contracts for work in Iraq.
Its politically connected founders defrauded the government with brazen
non-concern.
Retired Brig. Gen. Hugh Tant III testified that the company was paid to
provide trucks to the military, but that the vehicles didn't run and
had to be towed.
Tant said that when he confronted Mike Battles, the reply was, "You
asked for trucks =D6 it is immaterial whether the trucks were
operational."
The company was hired to screen civilian passengers and freight at the
Baghdad airport, but because of the violence, there were no commercial
flights.
So the company sent its screeners to do other jobs while continuing to
bill the Coalition Provisional Authority for the nonexistent security
services, former employees allege.
Plunder can be fun.
In 2003, a sack filled with bricks of $100 bills was delivered to the
company at the Baghdad airport.
Custer Battles employees playfully tossed the bricks back and forth on
the tarmac.
In another stunt, the company painted over the Iraqi Airways name on
forklifts and leased them back to the U.S. government.
The first whistleblower suit stemmed from Custer Battles's work in
helping to introduce a new Iraqi currency.
A jury found that the company had defrauded the U.S. government of $3
million.
In 2004, the Air Force banned the company from getting any more
contracts in Iraq.
But that didn't mean the game was over.
Custer Battles moved its assets and most of its employees to a new
company called Danubia Global -- which, The Wall Street Journal
reports, won government contracts worth $1.28 million a month.
The principals created other companies to get around the suspension,
including two based in Battles's Rhode Island office.
The latest suit says that former acting Navy Secretary Hansford Johnson
and former acting Navy Undersecretary Douglas Combs were in on a scheme
"to set up sham companies" to conceal Custer Battles's ownership and
control, according to AP.
Last year, one of those companies bought Danubia.
Johnson and Combs reportedly asked Air Force Deputy General Counsel
Steven Shaw to lift the ban on Custer Battles.
In an e-mail to Shaw, Combs called Battles and Custer men with "stellar
records." Shaw refused the request.
With $21 billion now budgeted for Iraq reconstruction, you'd think
the leaders in Washington would tighten up the oversight. Think again.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, has proposed creating a
special committee to review government contracts in Iraq -- similar to
the Truman Committee in World War II.
Last month it went down in flames with only one Senate Republican
voting for it, Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee.
It all sort of leaves you speechless.
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"Speechless" isn't the word.
Harry
(see all of Harry Hope's excellent posts as they break, put this link
in your browser, use it, this is a search on google groups, on the
author Harry Hope sorted by date... nothing fancy):
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3D&start=3D0&scoring=3Dd&enc_author=3D-nI=
hFBQAAACtBOUGAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
With history moving so fast these days you might also want to sort
Harry Hope's posts by "relevance" particulary if the lies and
misdirection that we are all being sujected to by the extensive Bush
Crime Family Propagand machine are confusing you. Using the "sort by
relevance" option has a way of letting you take in the big picture.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=3D&start=3D0&enc_author=3D-nIhFBQAAACtBOU=
GAhN9cSve8yYdFJBuOPANdqfI6prRsqjc7uCt1A&
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