$1.6 million seal team six silencer scam is the us navy's second investigation this month
Three senior US Navy intelligence officials are under investigation for an alleged scheme to defraud the military for $1.6 million. The three civilian officials are suspected of contracting the purchase of rifle silencers for 200 times their manufacturing costs from a car mechanic in California, purportedly for use by the elite SEAL Team Six unit that killed Osama Bin Laden.
三名美國海軍資深情資人員因合謀挪用軍用資金 $1.6M 目前正受調查處分,他們涉嫌於採購合約中將從加州某名技工提供的消音器 (滅聲器) 竄改為製作成本之200倍,據悉該批消音器係標示指定配給與曾經參與獵殺賓拉登的 SEAL TEAM 6。
The Washington Post reports the silencers were designed for the "AK family of firearms," and cost around $8,000 to build. They were marked as unmarked and untraceable, and ordered for use by SEAL Team Six. Officials with the unit claim to be unaware of such an order.
華盛頓郵報 (下作 'WP' ) 指出該批消音器本來是設計用作 AK 家族之用,成本約為 8K。並標示為「無標識編號、無法 (讓拾獲者) 追溯」的配件,且列明為 SEAL T6 要求供給。不過SEAL T6 相關負責人員表示自單位並無發現該起訂單。
THE CONTRACT WAS FOR $1.6 MILLION,
BUT THE SILENCERS COST ONLY $8,000 TO MAKE
採購合約標明消音器要價 $1.6M,不過實際成本只要8K。
None of the three officials have yet been charged in the investigation, which is ongoing, but The Washington Post reports that federal investigators failed to correctly redact the names of two of the three people involved. It names Conspirator #2 as Lee Hall — a "longtime defense official" — and speculates, citing three sources, that Conspirator #3, referred to as "David," is a senior director for Navy intelligence, David W. Landersman. Court records reportedly name the mechanic who provided the silencers as Mark Landersman: David W. Landersman's brother. The same records describe Landersman as a "down-on-his-luck" mechanic who declared personal bankruptcy in July 2012.
這三名文職人員經調查目前未被起訴,但調查仍在持續當中。 WP 另指出調查小組沒有成功的將三名涉案人員名字保密,其中曝光之涉案者: #2 Lee Hall — 一名「老牌的國防人員」(目前有3個出處證實)、#3 'David', David W. Landersman (下作 'DW')— 海軍情資單位的資深人員。法院的庭上紀錄透露出該名提供消音器的汽車修理技工是 Mark Landersman (下作 'MARK'),也就是 DW 的親兄弟,並且這名「運氣真的有夠背」的技工已在 2012年 (民國 101年) 申請個人信用破產。
BANKRUPT MECHANIC MARK LANDERSMAN
BOUGHT A PORSCHE AFTER COMPLETING THE ORDER
申請破產後的修理技工在交付訂單後變出了一台 911
A month after his bankruptcy, court documents show Mark Landersman receiving emails from his brother at the Pentagon in which David W. Landersman discussed the construction of firearm silencers, attaching links to instructions for their creation. Mark replied with "Wow! Very Simple!" The blueprints for the silencers — referred to as "small engine mufflers" — were given to machinist Carlos C. Robles to create, for which he was paid $8,000. A day after he furnished his brother with the necessary details for silencer construction, David Landersman received a $2 million budget supplement for "studies, assessment, and research," $1.6 million of which is believed to have gone toward the silencers. Shortly after fulfilling the "muffler" contract, the recently bankrupted Mark Landersman bought four vehicles, including a Porsche 911.
在申請破產的一個月後,據法院文件表示 MARK 接到了 DW 從五角大樓寄來的 EMAIL 討論有關製作消音器的事情,並且附上了教學 LINK。 MARK 回覆 DW 表示:「靠!這太簡單了!」,並拿著聲稱是「小型車用引擎消音器」的圖紙委託一名技師以 $8000的代價製作,這批「消音器」交付給 DW後,DW 收到了一筆 $2M的「研發/測試/評估」補充經費,相信其中 1.6M 流向了該批消音器。在履行合約後不久,才剛破產的 MARK 就買了四台車,其中包括一架保時捷 911。
In 2011, the US Navy set up a special review team to avert exactly this form of fraud after a Navy official and the owner of a small tech business were found to be conspiring in a $10 million kickback scheme. At the time, Navy secretary Ray Mabus said the military would "not accept any impropriety, kickbacks, bribery, or fraud." But the hard line appears to be ineffectual: last week three other Navy intelligence officials were charged with bribery after being found to have exchanged sensitive information for money and sex.
在 2011年,美國海軍設立遺址特別調查小組去防止這類海軍人員與蚊型科技公司老闆合謀的騙局,並查出了涉及 $10M 的回佣案件。時任海軍參謀長表示對「任何不実、回扣、賄賂、詐騙的行為不能接受」(騜:「對 XXX 採取『零容忍』!」),但似乎問題持續存在:上星期另外三名情資人員因受收取金錢及性服務換取敏感資訊而涉嫌被起訴收受行賄。
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