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  • OSI stalwart reflects on Iran, career

    As Iranian nuclear deal discussions continue to make headlines, the contributing legacy of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents who earlier served in Iran cannot be understated.A permanent AFOSI footprint was activated in Tehran as a resident agency on July 1, 1966. It was

  • Civil settlement reached over testing procedure claims

    An environmental testing company headquartered in Dayton, New Jersey, will pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it failed to follow proper EPA methodology during some of its tests, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced Dec. 3Accutest Corp., also known as Accutest Laboratories is an

  • Husband, wife given separate prison terms for three fraud schemes

    U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Shaun Tucker, aka "Shawn Turner," and "Mark Tyler," age 50, of Keymar, Md, to eight years in prison Nov. 20 followed by three years of supervised release in connection with defrauding the United States of more than $30 million in obtaining government

  • Defense contractor president sentenced to prison for bribery conspiracy

    Christopher Houston Hensley, 57, of Yukon, Okla., was sentenced Nov. 18 to serve one year and one day in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to bribe a public official at the Corpus Christi Army Depot. The announcement was made by Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western

  • AF NCO arrested for enticement of a minor for sex

    An Airman assigned to Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint for enticement of a minor for sex.A criminal complaint is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed

  • ICAC gets guilty verdict

    Another guilty verdict for Internet Crimes Against Children is now in the books, according to Air Force legal officials. The outcome stems from the ICAC courts martial, levied against Airman First Class Christopher Dean, of the 603rd Air and Space Operations Center, Ramstein Air Base, Germany.On

  • Retired SNCO pleads guilty to contract disclosure and tax fraud

    A retired Air Force master sergeant pleaded guilty Oct. 22 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to unlawfully disclosing confidential procurement information and filing a false tax return, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice

  • Boeing pays $18M to settle false claims allegations

    The Boeing Company has paid the United States $18 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false claims for labor charges on maintenance contracts with the U.S. Air Force for the C-17 Globemaster aircraft, the Justice Department announced Oct. 14. "Defense contractors are required to