Feds: Texan (DynCorp.) gave girlfriend, others access to 'Green Zone'

[leftchick]

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3875697&nav=1TjD


ALEXANDRIA, Va. The feds today charged a 48-year-old former government contractor from Texas with fraud related to security operations in Iraq.

Thomas Barnes the Third of Fort Worth allegedly gave top access I-D badges in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone to an Iraqi girlfriend, a corporate executive and others not entitled to them.

Barnes has been fired by Irving, Texas,-based DynCorp.

Barnes was arrested today at Dulles International Airport and freed on his recognizance following an initial court appearance in Alexandria, Virginia.

A preliminary hearing is Thursday.

If convicted, Barnes faces up to five years in prison.

According to the complaint, Barnes would sidestep a security check and issue blue badges _ reflecting the highest level of access

[rainbow4321]

1. DynCorp VP , his security , Barnes' girlfriend and her family...

Um, OK, that is a shitload of wrong badges floating around...


http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQI_BADGE_FRAUD?SITE=TXSAE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-09-20-17-59-16

According to court records, Barnes produced access badges for people authorized to enter the Green Zone, where security is especially tight after militants vowed last week to launch an attack in the zone.

DynCorp administers the badge program under a $7.7 million military contract. Greg Lagana, a spokesman for the Irving, Texas, company, said Barnes was fired and withdrawn from Iraq, and the company is confident that Barnes' actions were an isolated incident.

Barnes also acknowledged to the FBI that he prepared a blue badge for a DynCorp vice president when the executive was only entitled to a lesser classification, according to the complaint. Lagana said the DynCorp vice president did not know his access badges were improperly issued.

Two South African members of the security detail that accompanied the DynCorp vice president in Baghdad also improperly received high-level access badges, the complaint said.

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Company's history

http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=415933

Insight has learned that the U.S. State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has issued a $22 million contract to DynCorp Aerospace Operations (UK) Ltd., a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), to "re-establish police, justice and prison functions in postconflict Iraq." "The contract," according to one congressional aide who asked not to be identified, "was sole-sourced for one year. But this contract could come to $500 million before it's through."

"There are some strange things about how this contract was issued," the aide continues, "because why would CSC use an offshore subsidiary. Is it so they won't have to pay taxes on this money? Also, why wasn't this contract put up for bid? Why was DynCorp the chosen recipient?"

Indeed, DynCorp has many federal contracts. But sole-sourcing of this contract has raised eyebrows for some at the State Department and in Congress where aides want answers about this deal and others coming down the pike.

And concerning DynCorp's contract, some in Congress are wondering why State would issue a sole-source bid to a company that has had some "recent" problems overseas in similiar roles. For example, last year alone was not only sued but paid large settlements to two former employees who blew the whistle on corporate managers and employees who engaged in sex trafficking in Bosnia?

[leftchick]

6. interesting stuff

it is really amazing how many different ways we as taxpayers are getting ripped off in the Iraq Contractor free for all.

:grr:

[hang a left]

2. Hell of a way for his wife to find out about his girlfriend.....

It is a free for all over there.

[Roland99]

3. Beautiful.

[cosmicdot]

4. is Smirk making a 'to pardon' list? wonder if Pug Winokur ...

will be the go-between?


Herbert "Pug" Winokur, a longtime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a veteran Washington and Wall Street insider, intimately tied to military and intelligence hawks, wealthy elites and the Bush oligarchy. In addition to his key facilitator/enforcer role at Enron, Winokur is the CEO of the private Capricorn Holdings. Capricorn is the lead investor of DynCorp, and Winokur (who was the chairman of DynCorp's board of directors from 1987 to 1997) remains a DynCorp board member and chair of its compensation committee.

http://www.apfn.org/enron/tracking_winokur.htm

I think Pug was, also, at Harvard Management during the Smirk's Harken Energy wheeling and dealing.

[KittyWampus]

5. thread title had me wondering if "green zone" was a euphamism f/ something

Gannon/Guckert gets into the WH
Tarts get into the Green Zone

This is American Security on the GOP's Soviet Style of "leadership".

[bleedingheart]

7. Another example of "Corporate" responsibility and governance