LTC Frederick Lamar Burnett sentenced
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.
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.
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.
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 “100 % U.S. MADE.” 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.
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.
Category: Crime
The movie War Dogs comes to mind. Kinda.
Yes, War Dogs definitely come to my mind. I actually watched War Dogs after learning about this case against my dear friend, and I prayed that he friend would only get 7 months house arrest like Packouz received for conspiracy to commit fraud for over $300 million.
Photo?
I tried to google it too and I’m certain if Jonn could have found one, he’d have posted it.
One must shake one’s head at the inequity of the sentences.
Actually Jonn, he was in way deeper than that.
He contracted with the Chinese companies and then…
“…BURNETT hired individuals to work at his place of business for the purpose of unpacking the baseball caps that were shipped from China and removing the “made in China” tags that were sewn into each of the made in China baseball caps. The workers then repackaged the baseball caps in shipping boxes, thus removing any evidence that the baseball caps were manufactured in China and shipped to BURNETT from China. BURNETT paid all of these workers in cash to limit any record of the workers having worked for LAMAR.”
I still have my ACU pattern made in China, Go Guard backpack somewhere.
Not to mention the numerous Shinsekis (*OOPS!*, Berets) made in China.
I think the Made in China AAMs are collectable also.
Bergdahl and whatsitsname didn’t cost the US taxpayers $6.2 millions in contractor cash. That’s why they don’t get punished quite the way they should be.
Besides the fact that they were tried under the UCMJ, while this dick was tried under Federal Statutes.
Bergdahl cost us the lives of no less than SIX Soldiers, not to mention those WIA, you can’t put a price tag on that.
He should try that simple trick of “coming out” as transgender. He’d be sprung in no time then.
Just claim that all of these shenanigans were perpetrated by the company president. That’s right, Elaine Ricci.
Can we send him to a Chinese-made prison, relabled “made in USA”?
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For “China” read “NORK”.
Even though he made efforts to remove the “Made In China” labels, authorities knew something was not kosher when after removing the ball caps, they wanted to wear them again thirty minutes later.
All of you whom voted for trump which company makes and sells his clothing made in China in the US talk about Hippocrates