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Charlene Shuler Corley is a former defense contractor who was convicted in 2007 on two counts of conspiracy.〔Merle, Renae. ("Defense Contractor Was Paid $1 Million to Ship 2 Washers." ) The Washington Post, 2007-08-17, p. D02.〕 Over the course of nine years leading up to September 2006, the company owned by Corley and her sister was found to have received over $21.560 million from the United States Department of Defense for fraudulent shipping costs; in one instance, the company was paid $998,798 for shipping two 19-cent washers.〔〔Zimmerman, Matthew. ("Convicted War Profiteer Still Lives High Life." ) ABC News, 2006-06-19.〕 In 2009, Corley was sentenced to 78 months in prison and ordered to pay $15.5 million in restitution.〔Kinnard, Meg. ("S.C. woman gets 6 years in prison." ) The Post and Courier, 2009-03-03.〕 ==Crime== Along with her twin sister Darlene Shuler Wooten, Corley was the co-owner of C&D Distributors, a supplier of small hardware components, plumbing fixtures and electronic equipment to the military. The company, based in Lexington, South Carolina; used a computerized government system that allowed shipping costs for each order to be submitted separately and automatically reimbursed. Using the system, C&D Distributors received payment from the Department of Defense on 112 fraudulent invoices, totaling $20.5 million in illegitimate charges, for parts sent to priority military installations, including destinations in Iraq and Afghanistan.〔 The fraud began in 1997 when a mistake on an invoice for shipping charges allowed C&D to make an unexpected profit of $5,000. Although they returned the money, they discovered that due to a flaw in the system, they could charge any amount for shipping and the government would pay it, no questions asked.〔 Among the invoices submitted by C&D Distributors were: * $445,640 for shipping an $8.75 elbow pipe * $492,096 for shipping a $10.99 machine thread plug * $403,436 for shipping six machine screws worth a total of $59.94〔 The scheme was discovered in September 2006 when the system red-flagged an invoice for over $998,000 in shipping charges for washers that only cost 19 cents. A review by a person discovered several of the exorbitant charges.〔 According to a Pentagon spokesman, the system has been modified to safeguard against similar exploitation in the future.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlene Corley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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