CBS Evening News - 2007-11-01
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[0:02] American taxpayers ripped off by an
[0:05] [music] epidemic of wartime military
[0:07] contract fraud. Tonight, CBS News
[0:09] exposes the latest case, tankers full of
[0:12] fuel paid for but never delivered. I'm
[0:16] Katie Couric. Also tonight, [music] a
[0:17] race against time for America's toy
[0:20] makers. With the holidays coming,
[0:21] they're scrambling to make sure their
[0:23] toys are safe in this year of recalls.
[0:26] >> What they've been doing is testing
[0:28] vigorously.
[0:29] >> And how a mob trial was whacked by a
[0:31] bombshell caught on tape.
[0:34] >> Had we been provided [music] with these
[0:35] tapes much earlier in this process, I
[0:38] dare say that we would not have been
[0:39] here.
[0:44] >> This is the CBS [music]
[0:45] Evening News with Katie Couric.
[0:50] >> Good evening, everyone. American
[0:51] taxpayers [music] have spent $600
[0:53] billion on the wars in Iraq and
[0:56] Afghanistan, but a lot of that money is
[0:58] being lost to fraud, contract fraud. In
[1:02] fact, a report by an independent panel
[1:04] today said the Army needs 2,000 more
[1:06] people to manage all of its contracts.
[1:09] And tonight, David Martin has exclusive
[1:11] news of yet another taxpayer rip-off.
[1:15] >> The delivery of aviation gas to the
[1:17] giant airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan
[1:20] is the latest case of fraud to hit a
[1:22] contracting system overwhelmed by war
[1:25] and practically begging to be ripped
[1:27] off. So far, two former employees of
[1:29] Kellogg Brown & Root have been arrested
[1:31] for their part in a scheme worthy of
[1:33] Tony Soprano.
[1:35] According to court documents, the two
[1:37] KBR men who worked for the US military
[1:39] at Bagram forged receipts for 80 tanker
[1:42] loads trucked in bu