Texas couple pleads guilty in Afghanistan fraud

[sasquatch]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – A Houston couple has pleaded guilty in an alleged plot to defraud the U.S. while working as contractors on rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan.

Seventy-three-year-old Delmar Dwayne Spier and his wife, 60-year-old Barbara Edens Spier, pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington.

Their plea agreements require them to forfeit $3 million in proceeds from the fraud. Sentencing has not been set.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090910/ap_on_re_us/us_afghanistan_fraud

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Texas.

[CanonRay]

1. $5 says ole' Delmar is a Rethug

Any takers?

[sasquatch]

2. That's a sucker bet and you know it

[UpInArms]

3. well, apparently Barbara is!

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Houston&st=TX&last=Spier

Spier, Barbara Ms.
Houston, TX 77092
U.s. Protection & Investigation/Pre
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $500
primary 01/06/05
Spier, Barbara Mrs.
Houston, TX 77092
U S P I/President
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $10,000
primary 07/13/04
Spier, Barbara Mrs.
Houston, TX 77092
Uspi/President
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $2,500
primary 10/13/03
Spier, Barbara Mrs.
Houston, TX 77092
Uspi/President
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $2,500
primary 09/11/03
Spier, Barbara Mrs.
HOUSTON, TX 77092
US PROTECTION & INVESTIGATIONS LLC/
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE (R) $500
primary 05/23/03

[Ian David]

4. BIG Republican donors.

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=Spier&state=TX&zip=&employ=&cand=&all=Y&sort=N&capcode=psdn8&submit=Submit

[earcandle]

5. Duh? how could two old people pull this off without the help of agency?

[gratuitous]

6. War profiteering has been a capital offense

I wonder why the Spiers hate America and its troops so much? Are they typical of other big Republican donors in Houston? Perhaps the next time Tom DeLay or Newt Gingrich is guest bloviating (a new game starts in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1), they could be asked about the Spiers and whether or not they endorse defrauding the government during wartime?

[Ozymanithrax]

7. Capitolism in Action...

Or at least Capitolism as practiced in the USA.