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FOOD CONTRACTORS LEAVE PENTAGON WITH BAD AFTERTASTE

Topic: Yesterday's News?, News & Comment, Dept. of Defense, Contracting and contractors, Dept. of Justice
31. January 2008
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It is hard to keep track of all the Justice Department investigations alleging abuses by contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Glenn R. Simpson of the Wall Street Journal writes that the Pentagon is targeting a lesser-known scandal — food contractors overcharging for the meals they serve military personnel. It seems that the main military food supplier, the Kuwait-based Public Warehousing Company, is collecting major discounts from food distributing subcontractors connected to them. Public Warehouse is then neglecting to share the savings with the U.S. Government.  Read Glenn Simpson here.

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