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22-Year-Old Arms Dealer Set To Plead
From the Miami Herald:
A 22-year-old Miami Beach entrepreneur is scheduled to enter a plea to charges of defrauding the U.S. government by allegedly falsifying the origins and age of ammunition intended for Afghanistan.Efraim Diveroli's company had a contract to supply the U.S. military with ammunition for forces in Afghanistan. He has been charged along with three others with providing prohibited Chinese-made ammunition and saying it came from Albania.
He is scheduled to be in court Monday.
Diveroli's company, AEY Inc., was paid more than $10 million for 35 shipments of ammunition that prosecutors say was manufactured in China. Prosecutors contend his company removed markings from containers to hide the fact they were manufactured in China.
Late Update: Efraim Diveroli's attorney, Howard Srebnick, said in an email this morning that Diveroli will plead not guilty to the charges, and the court appearance is scheduled for Wednesday, not today.
I'm betting he got a real sweetheart deal to plead guilty and get this off the front pages. There are too many others that don't want to see a full blown trial as it would prove way too embarrassing.
July 7, 2008 9:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Boy, howdy. Why do these folks hate Murka? Cheating, lying, changing the labels? That's just good "bidness!" This poor young man's future is going to be ruined by government oversight. What kind of country treats young, eager entrepeneurs like crooks?
July 7, 2008 9:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
A twenty-two year old doesn't know how to do this without inside help.
This is just another scam that will be swept under the rug.
The top heads will walk away with the money.
You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.
July 7, 2008 9:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
He had it. If you look at the list of all involved in this scam there was at least one older guy, in his 60's I think, and a few in their later 20's.
July 7, 2008 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did he play the "vital to national security" card like he did when he was busted for DUI?
July 7, 2008 10:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Follow the money - he's taking the fall for someone. Probably a bunch of someones.
July 7, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Want to see the REAL crooks?
Just wait and see how much of this illegal money ever is given back to "We the Taxpayers".
I'll tell you how much....ZERO!
Even when and if this group is convicted, the money involved will remain in the federal system to pay federal people who prosecute these folks. They will then take more from us to get another contract for weapons.
This is a minor crook... he has just learned (apparently very easily) just how much "We the Taxpayers" desire and deserve to be taken to the cleaners...
Many of us readers probably spent a year or so in a foreign land getting shot at for more time than this guy will spend behind bars, and he will most likely come out of it with millions in his pocket, rather than lifelong wounds.
Sad comment on our nation this fourth of July season...
July 7, 2008 12:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nothing here about the fact that even after his indictment on fraud, his company was awarded with a ()NEW() multi-million dollar contract to procure arms for Iraq...
Why leave a pertinent fact like that out...or did I get that right?
July 7, 2008 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink