Army Contractor Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes

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BY Robert Gearty
DAILY NEWS WRITER

A contractor for the Army pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting $200,000 in bribes to steer subcontracts to companies in Afghanistan.

Daniel Freeman, who worked for the Houston-based giant engineering KBR, said he accepted the payoffs from representatives of the Afghan-owned companies from 2007 to 2009.

He said he instructed others in how to wire the money back to New York to avoid detection.

"I did it that way to conceal the money," Freeman said in Manhattan Federal Court.

Freeman was employed by a U.S. company that provided logistics support to the Army in Afghanistan, such as providing meals, delivering mail and transporting supplies and equipment, according to court papers.

Freeman, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of accepting illegal gratuity payments and one count of money laundering.

He faces 51 to 63 months in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 18.

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It is with great disgust I share with you the news about Chelene Nightingale, former canidate for governor of ca. we were emailed this "freeplumpervideos.com and were shown that This woman is nothing but a cheap porn poser. She lied to us at the CP told us she did some "acting" well, had we known about this we would be saved the embarrassment we must endure. We knew she had no education, and no experience but she claimed to be "Christian" and we went with it. LESSONS LEARNED don't believe everything someone spouts off about themselves. She will never be part of outr organization again. She is simply a horrible human.

Donald of CA 9:59PM December 17, 2010

NEWS ALERT It has been discovered that Chelene Nightingale for governor..has her campign donations filed with the sec. Of State (online) listed as Chelene Nightingale/Legal Defense Fund!!!!! PEOPLE this means this fraud is using donations to pay off her legal fees of which she is being sued in court by a "mountain Minutmen org." This is the sickest scam I have ever seen As most of Nightingales supporters are elderly, and or people on limited income! Thats why she has no money to spend for her campaign!! People..this is not a smear but a warning...This is one SICK WOMAN.

Richard Miller of CA 6:36PM August 27, 2010

This makes the case for ridding the military from all private contractors that have so wasted trillions in taxpayer dollars.

If we want to put people back to work, get American soldiers doing all the operations the military needs doing, instead of letting some sleazeballs contractors like KBR from subcontracting it all to the cheapest labor possible (amazing how its more expensive to use contractors than having in done internally within the military). We were sold a bill of goods by Dick Cheney to privatize our military so he and his cronyism could enrich themselves at out expense. This is the biggest con job ever stolen from the American people, sort of like the oligarchies in Russia who cherry picked the Soviet Union's assets after the end of the Cold War.

Glad Gates is talking about reductions in military spending, because its the biggest black hole for taxpayers money ever.

Sally of VA 6:03PM August 27, 2010

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