2nd Army Officer Charged In Iraq Rebuilding Scandal – New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/international/middleeast/16reconstruct.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1134738367-BKofzcv1plM3SKI58WG3Jw

Money intended for Iraq’s reconstruction is being used to redecorate the homes of US facilitators. If this is what a Lieutenant Colonel gets, imagine what Dick Cheney’s house looks like!

She is charged with receiving cash bribes of $80,000 to $100,000, a Cadillac Escalade, a trove of illegal weaponry and other items for steering construction jobs to an American contractor in Iraq.

Some of the cash, intended for projects like a library in the holy city of Karbala and an Iraqi police academy south of Baghdad, paid for a new hot tub and a deck for Colonel Harrison’s home in Trenton, according to the federal affidavit.

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