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The Gansler Commission investigated the contingency contracting crisis in 2007, named after its chair, Jacques S. Gansler, a former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. In August, then United States Secretary of the Army, Pete Geren, established the independent ''Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations'' to review recent operations and provide recommendations. This commission released what became known as the ''Gansler Report'' in October 2007. ==Contingency Contracting Crisis== * In August 2006, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Marshall Gutierrez, a senior logistics officer in Kuwait, was arrested, and was accused of shaking down a laundry contractor for a $3,400 bribe. After his arrest, he was released to his quarters and was found dead a few days later next to an empty bottle of prescription sleeping pills and an open container of what appeared to be antifreeze. * In October 2006, United States Army Sergeant Denise A. Lannaman, a soldier working for Colonel Gutierrez died of a gunshot wound, perhaps believing she would be interviewed involving the colonel’s contracting improprieties. * In December 2006, United States Army Major Gloria D. Davis killed herself with a gunshot wound to her head, the day after confessing to accepting $225,000 in bribes while a contracting officer in Kuwait. * In July 2007, United States Army Major John L. Cockerham was arrested for orchestrating a large bribery scheme in Kuwait and Iraq. In what became known as the Cockerham bribery case, this military officer issued multi-million dollar contracts to companies providing services between 2004 and 2007. He was later found guilty and sentenced to 17 and 1/2 years in prison for accepting bribes. * Besides these high-visibility suicides of contracting and logistics professionals, there were some 20 military and civilian United States Army employees charged in more than 70 criminal contract-fraud cases. 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「Gansler Commission」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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