National Procurement Fraud Task Force (NPFTF)

National Procurement Fraud Task Force (NPFTF)

ssistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer

Lanny A. Breuer
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division

The National Procurement Fraud Task Force was created on October 10, 2006, to promote the prevention, early detection and prosecution of procurement fraud. The Task Force is chaired by the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, and includes the FBI, the Department of Justice Inspector General and other federal Inspectors General, defense investigative agencies, federal prosecutors from United States Attorneys offices across the country, as well as the Criminal, Civil, Antitrust and Tax Divisions of the Department of Justice. The Task Force's emphasis will be to increase civil and criminal enforcement where it can have the greatest effect, including defective pricing, product substitution, misuse of classified and procurement sensitive information, false claims, grant fraud, labor mischarging, fraud involving foreign military sales, ethics and conflict of interest violations, and public corruption associated with procurement fraud. The Task Force also will focus on maximizing information sharing and take significant leadership in addressing issues such as grant fraud, relations with the private sector, training and legislation.

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May 6, 2009
Civilian Contractor, U.S. Army Major and His Wife Indicted for Alleged Bribe Scheme Involving Contracts at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait

Washington - A 23-count indictment unsealed today alleges that a civilian contractor paid more than $2.8 million in bribes to a U.S. Army contracting official stationed at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, and the official’s wife, and that the three individuals committed honest services fraud and money laundering offenses in connection with the same conduct, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced.
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May 6 , 2009
Korean Businessman Indicted in Bribery Conspiracy and Wire Fraud Scheme Involving $206 Million Contract

WASHINGTON - A South Korean businessman was indicted today for his alleged role in a bribery conspiracy for a $206 million telecommunications contract involving employees of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced.
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May 4, 2009
U.S. Charges Bolingbrook Man with Bribery In Connection with Awarding Army Corps of Engineers Contract in Iraq

CHICAGO - A Bolingbrook man working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Iraq and Afghanistan was arrested Saturday on federal bribery charges for allegedly soliciting $40,000 from a contractor who was awarded a $2.5 million project to build city parks in Kirkuk, Iraq, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Joselito Domingo, appeared today in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, after being taken into custody at Baltimore Washington International Airport over the weekend upon his return from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. Domingo was confronted by law enforcement on April 28 as he left the Western Union office at Bagram after he allegedly retrieved $4,770 that he believed was sent to him by the contractor who was cooperating with the FBI and Defense Department agencies throughout the investigation.
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