ArmorGroup Running Absolutely Amok: Whistleblowers Expose State Dept. Clusterfuck

[Joanne98]

So that story I referenced working on below is this account from two ArmorGroup whistleblowers. A representative sample:


Perhaps most seriously, Gordon said that he found out that both guards and even ArmorGroup program manager Nick Du Plessis were regularly frequenting brothels in Kabul. “Many of the prostitutes in Kabul are young Chinese girls who were taken against their will to Kabul for sexual exploitation,” Gordon said. Federal contracting regulations designed to support the Trafficking in Victims Protection Act prevents contractors from “procuring commercial sex acts during the period of performance of the contract,” meaning that ArmorGroup could lose its contract if State learned of the violation. Yet Gordon’s lawsuit alleges he was shut out of an investigation into the solicitation of prostitutes at the behest of Armor Group’s London-based parent company, despite recurring evidence that ArmorGroup employees continued to solicit prostitutes and perhaps even run their own prostitution services. A trainee boasted to Gordon “that he could purchase a girl for $20,000 and turn a profit after a month.”
This company still holds a $189 million contract to protect the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Still. I cannot get a State Department response to the basic question of why that is

Video at link
http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/09/10/armorgroup-running-absolutely-amok-whistleblowers-expose-state-dept-clusterfuck/

[elehhhhna]

1. Armor's owned by BAE which is partly owned by THE CARLYLE GROUP.

So now it is all understandable. The ELITES are not above human trafficking. Or anything else.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3309.htm

BAE bought Armor Holdings in 2007.

K&R, btw.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Jesus, BAE is involved in a LOT of illegal shit

And to think I once wanted to work for them. They still have an office here in Ottawa.

If they ever DO make corporations persons, every member of the board of directors should be made to serve a life term.

[midnight]

2. Lot's of money for U.S projects around the globe, but not so much for

a system that creates a safe, healthy, affordable health care delivery system for the citizens of the U.S. Plus this sleazy prostitution service makes me ill. Same old crap.