Another Pat sends us a link to the Department of Justice, Northern District of Alabama, press release announcing the sentencing of Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Lamar Burnett in a case of fraud wherein Burnett had contracts to deliver US-made ball caps and backpacks to Recruiting Command to hand out to recruits as promotional items. Instead, he delivered Chinese-made items.<\/p>\n
A federal judge today sentenced a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves to four years in prison and ordered him to forfeit $4.4 million to the government for fraudulently supplying hundreds of thousands of Chinese-produced baseball caps and backpacks to the Army Recruiting Command and passing them off as American-made products.<\/p>\n
U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Defense Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent in Charge John F. Khin, and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command Special Agent in Charge James T. Wallis announced the sentence.<\/p>\n
FREDERICK LAMAR BURNETT, 50, of Madison, received millions of dollars under contracts with the Army stating he must supply promotional items for the Recruiting Command that were \u201c100 % U.S. MADE.\u201d A federal jury convicted Burnett in April on three counts of wire fraud for using his Huntsville-based company, Lamar International Inc., in the scheme to defraud the Defense Department on three contracts, worth $6.2 million, between 2005 and 2009. U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn sentenced Burnett and ordered him to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I guess he intentionally negotiated with companies that he knew were buying their wares from the Chinese. He certainly deserves every second that he will spend in jail that he was handed, but, then Bergdahl gets off without a minute in jail for misbehavior in the face of the enemy and Manning skates out of more than twenty years of his sentence for being a traitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"