Have the firing squad start cleaning the dust off of those rifles
A U.S. Army officer was arrested on Thursday for stealing between $80,000 (45,000 pounds) and $100,000 in funds from the U.S. governing administration in Iraq and using the money to install a deck and hot hub in her New Jersey home.
The U.S. Justice Department said Army Reserve Lt. Col. Debra Harrison, 47, who served with the Coalition Provisional Authority, was arrested on charges involving bribery, money laundering and fraud.
Harrison is the second army officer and the fourth person charged in the past few weeks in connection with the scheme.
The Justice Department said Harrison was on active duty for the U.S. Army in 2003 and 2004, and was responsible for developing contract solicitations and ordering contracts for reconstruction efforts for the Coalition Provisional Authority — South Central Region.
According to court papers, Harrison and her co-conspirators accepted money and gifts in return for using their official positions to rig contract bids.
An affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey said she used the money to add a deck and put in a hot tub at her home in Trenton, New Jersey, accepted a Cadillac Escalade worth about $50,000 and a $6,000 airline ticket from a contractor in return for rigging the bids.
Harrison was also accused of laundering funds from the CPA.
Yeah, I know that she’ll only get time at Leavenworth for this, although she deserves more for this stain, but can I at least ask for a year per $1000 she stole sentence to begin after her commission times out? We all know that she won’t be making small rocks out of large ones and will spend her time in military prison washing the uniforms of those who are and possibly marching up and down the square, so why not have her do it for a long ass time?