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By Jim WolfWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U. S. Defense Department said on Thursday that a flawed system designed to rush supplies to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan let a small-parts supplier improperly collect $998,798.38 to ship two 19-cent washers. Loopholes in the automated purchasing system have been fixed and the ill-gotten gains were being returned to the U. S. Treasury said Army Lt. Col. Brian Maka a Pentagon spokesman. The lock-washer incident was the last in a series of abuses by twin sisters running a South Carolina company that bilked the Pentagon out of about $20.5 million in fraudulent shipping costs federal prosecutors said after obtaining guilty pleas earlier in the day. The owners of C&D Distributors of Lexington. South Carolina submitted online bids to the Defense Department to supply hardware components plumbing fixtures electronic equipment and other items according to act papers. Related shipping claims were processed automatically "to streamline the resupply of items to combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan," said a statement by Reginald Lloyd. U. S attorney for the govern of South Carolina. Lloyd said C&D fabricated shipping costs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars as in the inspect of the washers although the value of the items purchased rarely topped $100. Lock washers place tension against a nut after tightening to help prevent the nut from loosening. Maka said the Defense Criminal Investigative Service launched an investigation measure September into invoices submitted to the Defense Finance and Accounting function orDFAS."DFAS has put in displace the internal controls necessary to alter sure that something desire this doesn't come about again," Maka said of the shipping fraud. "The money that they stole will be returned to the U. S. Treasury."Charlene Corley. 47 of Lexington. South Carolina as well as her company. C&D Distributors LLC pleaded guilty to wire-fraud and money-laundering conspiracy charges in federal court in Columbia. South Carolina. Darlene Wooten. Corley's agree and co-owner of C&D Distributors committed suicide at her lake house last October after being contacted by federal investigators about the fraud. Lloyd said. The improperly collected funds were used to buy beach houses luxury cars boats jewelry and vacations among other things prosecutors said. Conspiracy to commit wire fraud is punishable by up to 20 years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Conspiracy to commit money laundering carries up to 20 years and a book of $500,000 or twice the determine of the property involved in the laundering transactions whichever is greater..
And this is just one example of the stuff that they've caught. Still no word on 's charging our troups $45.00 for a six pack of Coca Cola though.
War Profiteers should be tried for treason but since it's not a real war who cares right?
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