Posted on 12/03/2018 10:00:56 AM PST by Enlightened1
WASHINGTON — Three men from Northern Virginia have been charged with defrauding the Department of Defense of nearly $9 billion in contracts.
Abdul Huda Farouki, 75, of McLean, his brother Mazen Farouki, 73, of Boyce and Salah Maarouf, 71, of Fairfax all pleaded not guilty to eight counts each of fraud and violating sanctions against Iran.
Federal prosecutors say the three men — all executives connected to defense contractor Anham FZCO based in the United Arab Emirates — were awarded an $8 billion contract to provide supplies and food to American troops in Afghanistan in 2012.
The indictment says that the company gave false timelines for when the work would be done on two warehouses, and that they backed up those claims with misleading photos that made construction appear to be further along than in reality.
In addition to creating the false appearance of an active construction site, the company is also accused of trying to cut costs by moving those supplies through Iran, in violation of U.S. sanctions. When Abdul Huda Farouki learned that The Wall Street Journal was going to run a story about Anham moving supplies through Iran illegally, investigators say he sent an email to a senior Pentagon official saying that senior management had no knowledge of the plans.
The company was also awarded a second contract worth $984 million to bring trucking services to the U.S. Military in Afghanistan. Again, according to the indictment, the trucks were moved through Iran in an effort to save money, in violation of sanctions.
Each executive has been charged with two counts of major fraud, one count of conspiracy to violate the restrictions on doing business with Iran, four counts of substantive violations of those restrictions and one count of conspiracy to commit international money laundering.
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Oh, Dutch I see.
What a shocker...not
Abdul Huda Farouki, 75, of McLean, his brother Mazen Farouki, 73, of Boyce and Salah Maarouf, 71, of Fairfax ...............................All nice AMERICAN names, I see.................
Before I clicked on this, I KNEW they were MUSLIMS!!! That SPECIAL PROTECTED “religion”! ENOUGH!!!
Their names suggest that their ancestors came over on the Mayflower.
Northern Virginia?............I wonder if their ancestors fought in the Civil War?..................
The best way to get rich in America today is to move to DC area, and find some way to suckle on the tits of the great whore.
Abdul Huda Farouki, 75, of McLean, his brother Mazen Farouki, 73, of Boyce and Salah Maarouf, 71,
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Yeah, these are the guys our Defense Department should be contracting with...../S
There were very good reason for the founders to exclude the children of foreign nationals from being President.
Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
They ALL knew.
Hussein's brothas getting multi-billion dollar contracts with, apparently, little or no supervision. Color me surprised.
How much do want to bet that a significant portion of this money went to terrorist organizations.
Makes me wonder how many $$$$$ have been siphoned off for “MUSLIM OUTREACH” at NASA.
Abdul Huda Farouki, Mazen Farouki, Salah Maarouf
Good Old Virginian names, I see...
These people must think we are morons.
But then again they probably started under Odumbass with tacit approval.
How much do you want to bet that no one wanted the audit the group for fears of being labeled “anti-Muslim”?
Seriously.. the phrase “Arab Trader” has a contest, how the hell do they wind up stealing BILLIONS before anyone catches on?
Sorry if you think I am racist, but you NEVER ever take an Arab at face value when it comes to money.
It’s bad enough that this happened, but pulling this BS while we have troops in the field under fire should be equivalent to treason and punishable by death (only).
2012.
Obama was POTUS.
Response from Progressives and Fake News: “Ah, it’s someone else’s money. Nothing to see here. Oh, and Trump sux”.
This may come as a shock but they were major donors to the DNC.
Nobody robs banks anymore.
I’ll bet you DOD has thousands of civilian auditors.
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