Blog 49 USMC 20150725 WAJDI BIRJAS - BRIBE CONTRACTOR FOR MAJ MURRAY and MAJ MOMON
Former Defense Department Contract Employee Pleads Guilty to Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Related to Contracts in Support of Iraqi War Agrees to Forfeit $650,000 to U.S. Government Wajdi Birjas pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, and to money laundering conspiracy. He was a contract employee in the Host Nation Affairs office at Camp Arifjan, his responsibilities included identifying Kuwaiti companies able to provide certain goods and services to the U.S. military in Kuwait. Through his work, Birjas had frequent contact with Army contracting officials, including officials who were regularly receiving unlawful payments from individuals who had contracts with, or were seeking contracts from, DoD. He developed corrupt relationships with certain Army contracting officials, including Christopher Murray, James Momon and a sergeant first class deployed to Camp Arifjan as a senior procurement non- commissioned officer (NCO.) He received a share of the profits that the contracts generated and was allowed to live rent-free in a villa that contained a hidden safe.
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