Contractor Sentenced In Army Corruption Scheme In Hawaii - Honolulu Civil Beat
Contractor Sentenced In Army Corruption Scheme In Hawaii
John Winslett bribed Army officials with cash, cars and guns to win lucrative construction contracts in Hawaii, Justice Department said. Reading time: 2 minutes.
A former government contractor was sentenced to 70 months in prison Friday for a corruption scheme in which he paid bribes to secure Army contracts in Hawaii while also receiving kickbacks, the Justice Department said.
In court, Winslett admitted that from 2011 to 2018 he paid $100,000 worth of bribes to two Army contracting officials at Schofield Barracks in Honolulu. In return, the officials steered at least $19 million in federal contracts to Winslett’s employer, construction management firm REK Associates in Virginia.
Fort Bliss seeks new leads in case of soldier missing nearly 6 months
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Missing Fort Bliss Army Pvt. Richard Halliday.
FORT BLISS, Texas Despite more than 500 man hours devoted to search efforts over nearly six months, officials said Wednesday they still lacked answers in the disappearance of a Fort Bliss Army private and put out a new public call for leads to help locate him.
Pvt. Richard Halliday, 21, was last seen on July 23 of last year leaving his barracks room. He failed to report for duty the next day and the unit to which he’s assigned reported him missing.
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Army criminal investigators probe discovery of skeletal remains on Fort Bliss property in New Mexico
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Fort Bliss’ McGregor Range Complex area.
FORT BLISS, Texas The Army s Criminal Investigation Division is looking into the discovery of human remains, believed to more than a year old, on Fort Bliss property over the weekend.
Officials in a statement on Monday said the human skeletal partial remains were found on the Fort Bliss’ McGregor Range Complex during the early morning hours of Sunday. The skeletal remains were found in the training area off New Mexico Highway 506, about three miles from the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, the statement indicated.