After helping feds, whistleblower details bribes, fraud in Afghanistan

[babsbunny]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/21/104086/after-helping-feds-whistleblower.html

By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers

KABUL, Afghanistan — A corporate whistleblower, whose evidence of fraud led to one of the largest fines ever against a war-zone contractor, said that he was ordered to facilitate bribes, keep information from government auditors and inflate overhead rates.

Former Louis Berger Group employee Harold Salomon, in his first interview since the case was settled earlier this month, said he came to believe the New Jersey firm hired him because executives calculated the Haitian immigrant would not uncover their defrauding of U.S. taxpayers.

"Me being an immigrant would be easy prey," he said. They thought, "I would not understand anything."

[w4rma]

1. I think a lot of people are getting passed over for jobs for being ethical or a little too smart. nt

[flyarm]

3. ethical and smart are a dangerous formula for Fascism to take us completely over!! eom

[pleah]

2. K&R

[Overseas]

4. K&R. So is this the reason we had the TSA groping story flare up?

To make sure we didn't pay attention to this story?

Sometimes when we have a wild news grabbing story dominate our discussions, I wonder what story we are meant to miss.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Not quite...both matter in different ways

Read my sig

[mdmc]

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