Ex-colonel pleads to helping fix Iraq contract

[Barrett808]

Source: Associated Press

(06-10) 10:36 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A retired Army lieutenant colonel pleaded guilty Tuesday to steering a Pentagon contract for warehouses in Iraq to a contractor in return for $4,000 cash and a $5,000 trip to Thailand.

Levonda J. Selph pleaded guilty to bribery and conspiracy in U.S. District Court as part of a plea bargain with the government in which she agreed to cooperate with the investigation. The Virginia resident also agreed to pay the government $9,000 in restitution and serve a prison term.

She agreed to sentencing guidelines that could result in a prison term of up to two years and nine months. The length will be set by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Oct. 14.

The government said that in 2005 Lt. Col. Selph of the Army National Guard served in Baghdad as head of a selection board that awarded an annual $12 million contract to build and operate Defense Department warehouses in Iraq. The winning contractor was not identified by name in the court documents.

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[texastoast]

1. Well, that is a spit in the bucket

Need the big fish.

[Supersedeas]

2. Judge Walton is having court with more Booooosh cronies

[Sodbuster]

3. Nice that they busted her for wrongdoing but what about the contractor that

bribed her in the first place. He should spend some time at the grey bar too....