Man pleads guilty in Walter Reed scheme

[maddezmom]

GREENBELT, Md. --A man has pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a kickback scheme involving contracts at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Leon Krachyna Jr., 39, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to bribe a public official and defraud the Army, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said.

According to the plea agreement, from June 1999 to March 2002, Krachyna and an unnamed accomplice conspired to give kickbacks to a civilian contract specialist employed by the Army Medical Command. The unnamed official was responsible for procurement for the medical center.

The official helped Krachyna and his business partner secure government contracts worth as much as $1.4 million in exchange for a 10 percent cut, according to the plea agreement. Krachyna admitted paying the public official $10,000 to $30,000, according to the document.


more:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/10/man_pleads_guilty_in_walter_reed_scheme/

[stonebone]

1. No doubt, the first of many heads to roll

[brentspeak]

2. I want to see Halliburton's head rolling on this, as well

The name "Halliburton" should be made interchangeable with "Benedict Arnold".

[Donnachaidh]

3. where there's smoke

how many of the little guys will be thrown under a bus to protect the real criminals?

[Hekate]

4. One down, but how many cronies and thieves still to go?

Still, this is good news indeed.

Hekate

[Judi Lynn]

5. All these gung-ho war profiteers are the first ones to whirl & point at Americans who don't support

any and all hideous attempts to extend the reach of U.S. domination, through the physical presence and efforts of young, strong, desperate Americans, to batter, maim, murder more and more people protecting their own homelands from intruders, while they attempt to keep their perpetual war going in order to live off the steady stream of taxpayers' "blood" flowing from our governments open privatized wounds.

If we even consider using diplomacy, intelligence, good will, it takes away our opportunities to enrich the maggots clustered around any opening oozing money.

I absolutely could NOT loathe these hideous phoney "patriots" one bit more than I did long ago. It's pure pain living in the same world with them.



"Terrorist-lover!"