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O'Gara fires British employees charged with bribing foreign official Date published: 2/6/2010
BY FRANK DELANO Two British employees of the O'Gara Group are among 22 suppliers of military equipment charged last month with violating a U.S. law that prohibits bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain business. James Noe, president of O'Gara's Training and Services Division, said yesterday the company fired David Painter and Lee M. Wares after their arrest in Las Vegas Jan. 19. Noe said Painter and Wares had "no connection whatsoever" with O'Gara's tactical training center in Montross. Painter and Wares were the founders of London-based The agent told Painter and Wares that a potential $15 million sale of night-vision equipment and armored vehicles depended on a 20 per-cent "commission" to be divided among the agent and the country's defense minister. Painter and Wares paid the agent a $12,183 "commission" for a test shipment of equipment accompanied by bogus invoices, the indictment alleges. Painter, Wares and 19 other dealers in weapons and military equipment were all arrested when they went to Las Vegas to attend the Shooting Hunting Outdoor Trade Show. Painter and Wares remain in federal custody and will be arraigned Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, according to court documents. Noe said O'Gara is cooperating with the federal investigation. Some Westmoreland County residents have filed legal challenges to the county's approval of O'Gara's operation in Montross. A hearing on those challenges is scheduled for March 30 in Westmoreland Circuit Court. Frank Delano: 804/761-4300
atackduck - so it's OK for British aliens to come here and break anti-bribery laws but not OK for a Mexican alien to come here by breaking immigration law? For my part, I'm OK with Latinos coming here and working hard cutting grass and working at McDondalds, rather than these parasite merchants of death flogging their armaments around the world.
In Africa and throughout the middleast and much of Europe, bribery is the norm and you will not do business otherwise. This sounds like more of the BATFU and its out of control agents. They have nothing better to do than play gotcha, with our taxes, while illegals flood across the border.
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