Posted on 07/22/2016 6:59:19 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater
A former Department of State official is headed to prison for conspiring to steer $2 million in sole-source micro-dairy contracts to his son’s business, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Kenneth Apple faces up to 20 years behind bars after a federal jury in Virginia convicted him Thursday of ensuring the State Department awarded four contracts for creating milk-processing factories in Iraq to Xtreme Global Logistics Solutions (XGLS). Apple’s son, Jonathan Apple, owned 50 percent of the Montana-based company, the DOJ said.
Apple — a State Department agricultural advisor from Oregon in charge of micro-dairy contract oversight in Iraq between January 2009 and March 2011 — told his son in 2010 to apply for the contracts worth $2 million total and helped him file the application using false information, according to court records obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Kenneth Apple conspired to use his official position to pass on non-public information to his son in order to fraudulently award and administer government contracts,” the DOJ said in a news release.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/22/state-dept-official-convicted-of-steering-iraq-dairy-contracts-to-son/#ixzz4FC2AXPug
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[Eisenhower's "Military-Industrial Complex" Speech Origins and Significance]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y
You never give up hope in the corrupt DOJ, do you?
-—There’s no difference-—
This episode is trivial peanuts compared to the Clinton Foundation
the difference is a magnitude of at least several hundred
It was only two million dollars worth of CONTRACTS! The profit in that would have been far too small to interest Hillary, just penny ante stuff. That’s why the guy got twenty years, had it been half a billion worth he would have paid off the right people and gotten away.
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