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National Procurement Fraud Task Force (NPFTF) Our Mission
ssistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer
Lanny A. Breuer
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division

On October 10, 2006, the National Procurement Fraud Task Force was created to promote the prevention, early detection, and prosecution of procurement fraud. Chaired by Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, the Task Force members include the FBI, the Department of Justice Inspector General and other federal Inspectors General, defense investigative agencies, federal prosecutors from United States Attorneys offices across the country, as well as the Antitrust, Civil, Criminal, Environmental & Natural Resources, National Security, and Tax Divisions of the Department of Justice. The Task Force focuses on civil and criminal enforcement where it has the greatest effect, including defective pricing, product substitution, misuse of classified and procurement sensitive information, false claims, grant fraud, labor mischarging, fraud involving foreign military sales, ethics and conflict of interest violations, and public corruption associated with procurement fraud.


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November 16, 2009
U.S. Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Kuwait-Based Companies that Supplied Food to U.S. Troops in Middle East

The United States has joined a whistleblower suit against Public Warehousing Company (PWC), The Sultan Center Food Products Company (TSC), and PWC’s chief executive officer, Tarek Abbul Aziz Sultan Al-Essa, the Justice Department announced today.
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November 16, 2009
Australian Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Solicit Kickbacks in Connection with Government Contract in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - An Australian man pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to solicit kickbacks in connection with the award of a private security services subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney of the Antitrust Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride of the Eastern District of Virginia.
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November 16, 2009
Kuwaiti company "PWC" indicted for Massive Overcharging of U.S. For Soldiers' Food

Atlanta, GA - PUBLIC WAREHOUSING COMPANY, K.S.C., ("PWC") a logistics company organized under the laws of the Nation of Kuwait has been indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, committing major fraud against the United States, making false statements, submitting false claims and wire fraud. All of the charges concern multi-billion dollar contracts issued by the Department of Defense for feeding American troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan. PWC is scheduled for an initial appearance and arraignment before United States Magistrate Judge Janet F. King in Atlanta at 9:30 a.m. on November 20, 2009. A related civil action has also been filed against PWC.
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