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The delivery of aviation gas to the giant U.S. air base at Bagram in Afghanistan is the latest case of fraud to hit a contracting system overwhelmed by war and practically begging to be ripped off, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports exclusively.So far two former employees of Kellogg, Brown and Root have been arrested for their part in a scheme worthy of Tony Soprano.The two KBR men, who worked for the U.S. mili
stanley website tary at Bagram, forged receipts for 80 tanker loads trucked in but never delivered, according to court documents. The Pentagon paid for the undelivered fuel while the drivers sold it on the black market. For their role in the scheme, KBR employees divvyed up an estimated $800,000 in kick backs, reports Martin.That s just one of more than 80 criminal cases involving some $15 million in bribes. It is still a growing scandal which Pentagon officials expect will uncover hundreds of fraudulent contrac
stanley cup ts.A new report by a blue ribbon panel is headlined, Urgent Reform Required. It usually takes a crisis to make change, said Jacques Gansler, head of the panel. We have a c
stanley cup risis. The panel said the massive logistical demands of Iraq and Afghanistan exposed key failures in army contracting. The value of contracts awarded tripled to well over $100 billion, but the number of people managing those contracts stayed the same, Martin reports. There are currently 160,000 contractors working for the United States in the war zone but only 75 contrac Xwzh Shots Fired in Va. College Classroom
Some of the world most beautiful buildings have risen up, only to be destroyed or demolished just a few years or decades later. Here we remember some these great structures for what they once were. The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 The building was 1,851 ft 564 m long and 128 ft 39 m high and it had 990,000 sq ft 92,000 sqm of exhibition space, and the largest amount of glass ever seen in a building, thank to the newly-invented three year
stanley vattenflaska s earlier cast plate glass method. It was relocated to Sydenham Hill in 1852, and stood there until 1936, when it was destroyed in a fire. Only two water towers survived. The south one was taken down shortly after the fire, and
stanley shop the other one was demolished in 1941. via Wikimedia Commons Euston Arch, the 70 ft 6 in high 21.5 m original entran
stanley quencher ce to Euston Station, London, England. It was built in 1837, and demolished by hand in December 1961, before the station was rebuilt. In 2009 detailed plans were revealed to rebuild the Arch in front of the new station, but there have been no further details since then. Demolition begins. The new station: via Euston Arch, Ben Brooksbank/Wikimedia Commons and mattbuck The Neo-Classical style building of the Imperial Bank of Canada, Edmonton, built in 1907, demolished in 1950. The sandstone building had an elegant marble interior and porcelain tile floor. Now the Imperial Bank stands here. Now: via Archisee