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By Mike Nizza
[Update, 2:59 p.m. | He pleaded not guilty and was released until the trial. A date has not been set.]
If the subject had not already been covered extensively in the pages of The New York Times, Representative Henry Waxman’s question last month could have easily passed for comic relief during another unmercifully drawn-out [...]

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Company Accused of Fraud Had Been Flagged by State Dept.
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 25, 2008; A06
AEY Inc., the company run by a 22-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who was indicted last week for conspiring to defraud the government on a $298 million Pentagon contract in 2007, was on a State Department watch [...]

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By ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON — When the Army last year awarded a contract worth up to nearly $300 million to a tiny Miami Beach munitions dealer to supply ammunition to Afghanistan’s security forces, it overlooked a very checkered past.

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By ERIC SCHMITT
WASHINGTON – A military attaché has told Congressional investigators that the American ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan by that country’s defense minister to remove evidence of illegal Chinese origins on ammunition being shipped from Albania to Afghanistan by a Miami Beach arms-dealing company.

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Nick Juliano
Published: Friday March 28, 2008
The 22-year-old Florida man who allegedly provided old, substandard Chinese-manufactured ammunition to troops in Afghanistan as part of a nearly $300 million Pentagon contract also started a private company that specialized in selling foreign munitions to civilian gun enthusiasts, according to public documents, a RAW STORY investigation reveals.

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By C. J. CHIVERS
This article was reported by C. J. Chivers, Eric Schmitt and Nicholas Wood and written by Mr. Chivers.
Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
But to arm the Afghan forces [...]