Former Texas exec pleads guilty to military contract kickbacks (Iraq war contracts )

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A second former executive of a global logistics company has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to receiving kickbacks on Iraq war contracts and lying to federal investigators.

Kevin Andre Smoot, 43, faces up to 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines after pleading guilty Friday to making a false statement and violation of the Anti-Kickback Act before U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm.

Smoot, of The Woodlands, Texas, a Houston suburb, was the managing director of Eagle Global Logistics, Inc.'s freight forwarding station in Houston.

Christopher Cahill, the company's former regional vice president for the Middle East and India, plead guilty and was sentenced in August 2006 to 30 months in prison for inflating invoices for military shipments to Baghdad through EGL's subcontract with a Haliburton subsidiary named Kellogg, Brown and Root.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4987518.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. K & R nm

[Itchinjim]

2. Smoot Smote!

[coalition_unwilling]

12. "Smoot" - the name is positively Dickensian, isn't it (like Gradgrind) -n/t

[LeftishBrit]

15. Ogden Nash wrote a poem about someone called Smoot who 'smote smut'

and was evidently a Republican!

Otherwise, irrelevant to this story, but I like the poem:

Invocation

(SMOOT PLANS TARIFF BAN ON IMPROPER BOOKS - News Item)

Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)
Is planning a ban on smut.
Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
And his reverend occiput.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
Grit your molars and do your dut.,
Gird up your l__ns,
Smite h_p and th_gh,
We'll all be Kansas
By and by.

Smite, Smoot, for the Watch and Ward,
For Hiram Johnson and Henry Ford,
For Bishop Cannon and John D., Junior,
For ex-Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvunia,
For John S. Sumner and Elder Hays
And possibly Edward L. Bernays,
For Orville Poland and Ella Boole,
For Mother Machree and the Shelton pool.
When smut's to be smitten
Smoot will smite
For G-d, for country,
And Fahrenheit.

Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf;
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.
Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,
They're smuggling smut from Balt. to Butte!
Strongest and sternest
Of your s_x
Scatter the scoundrels
From Can. to Mex!

Smite, Smoot, for Smedley Butler,
For any good man by the name of Cutler,
Smite for the W.C.T.U,
For Rockne's team and for Leader's crew,
For Florence Coolidge and Admiral Byrd,
For Billy Sunday and John D., Third,
For Grantland Rice and for Albie Booth,
For the Woman's Auxiliary of Duluth,
Smite, Smoot,
Be rugged and rough,
Smut if smitten
Is front-page stuff.

[SpiralHawk]

3. I've got a sack of doughnuts here says Smoot is a true-blue republicon

And consequently anti-American in every sense -- a republicon crony war profiteer criminal.

Totally republicon. Totally lacking in honor.

[hisownpetard]

4. WAR PROFITEERING

Is there any legislation on the books that makes it illegal
to engage in war profiteering? If not, I think it's necessary
so that we can nail companies like this one and Halliburton
and all the other contractors who are getting richer every day
this misbegotten war continues, their income increasing
at the same rate as the count of the dead.

It's amoral and abhorrent, and something must be done!

[WatchWhatISay]

5. I'd love to put one of those little signs saying WAR PROFITEER

(like they put up for local highschool athletes, cheerleaders, band, etc) in Smoot's front yard here(The Woodlands). But he is not listed in the local phone book.

My next door neigbor is working for KBR in Iraq, as he has for the last three or four years. Wonder if he is one of the five who recieved the booty in this case.

[SpiralHawk]

6. If there was such legislation, you can bet your bippy the republicons repealed it

republicons sans diapers engorging selves with war profits
(the entity in the middle is named Halliburton,
evil spawn of VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney):

[siri2k]

10. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ALL RIGHT!

Like a good ol' fashion bring a picnic HANGING!
:popcorn:

[Faygo Kid]

13. The scum of the Earth. And, Bush supporters. Oh- I forgot; same thing.

I'll bet this guy drove around town with "Support Our Troops" magnets on his care, spouting all the platitudes. Never in our nation's history have we ever been cursed with such lowlifes in power. Take the money and run, you pond scum. The day of reckoning is at hand for you, the Bush Administration, Faux News and all the orc-like minions who have ripped off and torn apart our country. The anger grows by the day.

http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/Story+Image_thumb_051006_story1.jpg

[BornagainDUer]

7. Republicans: The Party that Preys together.

[broadcaster]

8. GOP: "Pray together on Sunday, Prey on eachother on Monday"

[tblue]

19. Prey on everybody else on Monday.

They do take care of their own, when it's convenient or saves their own ass.

[madrchsod]

9. war profiteering act

been on the books in one form or another since at least the civil war..

http://www.google.com/search?q=war+profiteering+act&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=FQe&start=0&sa=N

lots of information

[Ron Green]

11. I wonder if this guy is the spawn of Dirty Dan Smoot?

[Joanne98]

14. Does he have to pay the money back?

[whistle]

16. Gee, who would have thunk it!

:sarcasm: :wtf:

[Indenturedebtor]

17. Hehehe you know what they say

They say that you see one roach, your house if full of em... follow the trail follow the trail. Or better yet poison one and let him limp back to the nest. :popcorn:

[go west young man]

18. Tickets to sports events, box seats and such.

It's just business as usual for these people. They are making money off killing people and doing anything for those contracts. Pathetic. They have no conscience.

[dogfacedboy]

20. These are the kinds of parasites that have access to power. n/t