As has become our policy, we don’t really report on corruption much anymore. The fact of the matter is that corruption – including bribes, kick-backs, and other wrongdoing – has become the new normal. Or perhaps it was always thus, and we never noticed. In any case, the spate of headlines announcing the latest in corruption is just depressing. Plus, it’s boring.
But the headlines are clear: there is corruption on the buying side of the table, just as there is on the selling side. You can find wrongdoing by government employees just about as frequently as you can find wrongdoing by contractors.
So we thought we would do a table to illustrate what we’ve been saying for years: corruption is found everywhere and, if we say we want ethical behavior, we have to be vigilant in looking for corruption.
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Corruption: Government vs. Contractor |
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9/22/15 |
A former specialist with the U.S. Army stationed at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for accepting a $20,000 bribe in exchange for allowing thousands of gallons of fuel to be taken from the base. |
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9/18/25 |
DoD Employee Sentenced to over Three Years in Prison -- Caused the Army Research Laboratories to Fund a Research Project, and Then Persuaded the Defense Contractor to Subcontract with a Company He Secretly Controlled |
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9/18/25 |
A former Navy noncommissioned officer pleaded guilty today to accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes from vendors while he served in Afghanistan. |
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9/15/15 |
A former contracting official with the Georgia National Guard, and the owners of two vendor companies have been sentenced to federal prison for a corruption scheme wherein Elliott awarded contracts to the vendors in exchange for illegal kickbacks. |
A former contracting official with the Georgia National Guard, and the owners of two vendor companies have been sentenced to federal prison for a corruption scheme wherein Elliott awarded contracts to the vendors in exchange for illegal kickbacks |
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9/15/15 |
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A man was sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to repay $6.7 million for making false representations about the company’s office location so it could obtain a HUBZone certification and qualify for federal contracts. |
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9/11/15 |
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Scientists Sentenced To Prison For Defrauding The Small Business Innovation Research Program |
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9/11/15 |
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PAE Government Services and RM Asia (HK) Limited to Pay $1.45 Million to Settle Claims in Alleged Bid-Rigging Scheme |
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9/10/15 |
Two Contractors and One Former Civilian Employee Sentenced in Bribery Scheme at Georgia Military Base: The Defendants Received 22 Years, 10 Years and Five Years in Prison Respectively |
Two Contractors and One Former Civilian Employee Sentenced in Bribery Scheme at Georgia Military Base: The Defendants Received 22 Years, 10 Years and Five Years in Prison Respectively |
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9/04/15 |
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Government Subcontractors Convicted For Bribery |
http://www.justice.gov/usao-ak/pr/government-subcontractors-convicted-bribery |
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9/10/15 |
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Tutoring Services Corporation And 31 Individuals Indicted And Arrested For Defrauding The Department Of Education | |
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9/04/15 |
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Two Individuals Agree to Pay $435,000 to Settle False Claims Act Suit Alleging Evaded Customs Duties | |
Seems pretty balanced to us. And note, dear readers, that the table above reports DoJ enforcement activities only for a period of about three weeks.
We think we’ve made our point.
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