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to forfeetture. he pocketed $18 million himself. as a manager with the army corps of engineers as he certified the work was completed. the indictment alleges the four men scammed a $45 million contract to supply information technology and security to the corps. more than doubling the real cost and siphoning off the surplus into shell corporations. one of the most brazen federal procurement fraud scandals in our nation s history. men used the money to buy expensive real estate, bmw s, rolex, high end liquor, luxury hotel rooms and flat screen tv s. a fifth man, the chief technology officer at a software firm that may have done some work may be cooperating with prosecutors to break up the alleged conspiracy, but investigators refuse to say. not prepared to identify company a. prosecutors say the conspirators were waiting for a bigger payday. all of this made possible by the special rules congress set up for alaska native corporations. the contracts were steered th ....