European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga2 the stars and stripes tuesday january 21, 1986ry9 f. X w if i no j Reno Fuji Nir a Udouj secret programs spawn fraud Dingell says Washington up rep. John Linoell d mich., says corrupt contractors Are preying on classified air Force programs to overcharge taxpayers or engage in blatant Kickback schemes with Little fear of prosecution. In a letter to defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Dingell Naid the problem is compounded because the air Force has been hiding virtually nil relevant Dato on its burgeoning clarified programs from Congress. To underscore his concern Din cell cited the Case of a former purchasing agent for the Northrop corp who was caught in such a scheme. Prosecutors Laid a judge the former employee had hoped to finance his Early retire ment with kickbacks from subcontractors on the Colussi find multimillion Dollar stealth bomber program. A tape recording from an Fri undercover Sling opera Tion in the Case shows that these black1 classified pro Grams Are Oul of  Dingell Wrosco. On inc tape Ronald Emily Btu Isicar the former Purchas ing a genl offered la raise a winning bid from r h manufacturing inc. A a Halsworth. Calif., subcontractor in return for a Kickback equal o 25 percent of the Price increase secrecy a being used by the contractors As a device to cloak discharging find overcharging and in Sorric cases engaging in outright illegal activities Dingell said in the idler Scal to Weinberger thursday and made Public Sun Day. This Case appears to be the lip of the iceberg. Because the air Force apparently has Little or no accountability for its stack program who can say otherwise. It appears the air Force has Given the rep. John Ingoll. Says waste and abuse encouraged contracting Community a Blank Cheek. Pentagon spokesman Jack Powers said he could not immediately determine whether Weinberger had received he Dingell ice tar. And he declined immediate comment. A infidel chairman of a House Energy and Commerce  that has been investigating waste and abuse in the Pentagon budget made Public a sentencing memorandum in the raw of Brousse Aii who pleaded guilty to accepting a s4.000 bribe in june 198-1. In the memorandum urging a  prosecutors quoted Brousseau As telling the head of re manuf Clur i m 4-1 years old right now. I firmly intend to retire Al 55 and. If 1 just take a Little piece Here and a Little Dicicc t Hyrc and a Little piece there put pm in a Sho Boj and Bury pm in the backyard. Get greedy you know a Nickel Here and a Nickel there. Everybody s Gonna get fat and everybody s Gonna be Happy and. Al 55,1 Gonna say goodbye Guys i m Gonna buy my Little Cabin and my fish ing boat on a  Dine pressing Weinberger to release data about the various air Force Black programs to Hii oversight and investigations subcommittee by Jan. 27, noted in his Ritter that some Trade journals project that the stealth bomber program will Cost up to s47 billion. With such enormous sums involved and the propensity of Many contractors to plunder the defense department coupled with ineffective oversight it is Little wonder Why Black programs Foster waste and abuse Dingell wrote. Army clerks blamed Tor High priced shipments Washington a the army paid More than 10 limes the lowest rate to ship soldiers household goods from Ger Many to Washington because of a mistake by military clerks according to computer records and Federal officials. Records show thai the army paid More than j565,�do for 46 shipments from Frankfurt Germany Between May i98j and june 1985. The shipments could have Cost ssi,300 if they were made through the least expensive companies. It looks like a booking clerk in Frank furl made a mistake said col. George Kaine Public information officer for the army military traffic management come in Baileys Crossroads a. He said the problem occurred because tic personnel in Germany were unfamiliar with the Rale Structure for shipping to the Washington area which includes insinuations in nearby Northern Virginia. Kaine. Said the army has no evidence that the problem went beyond Frankfurt to Washington shipments adding we Don t see any worldwide problem Kaine said the foul up was brought to our attention last october by general services administration auditor. He said the army look immediate action to notify personnel worldwide of the Correct rates far the District of Columbia area. We have put a Slop to it he said. Joseph cos a no an official in the Gas s office of transportation audits confirmed the error. He said it was brought to the attention of his office by army officials in Germany. The traffic management command is responsible for  personal properly shipments a year. The command s compel ers which record each shipment revealed for example that goods shipped june 1,1984, at a Cost of 53s.327 would have Cost j2.978 if the army had used the lowest available Rale. On aug. 3, 1984, i shipment that Cost 533,084 could have been handled for s2.788. A Jan. 30, 1985, a shipment could have Cost 11,945, bul the army paid $23,91 i o in May 1985, a 132,170 shipment could have been arranged for �3,063. The companies that arrange the moves Are called freight forwarders. They have no trucks ships or Plantt bul coordinate the moves with local moving companies. The Frankfurt to Washington shipments were handled under a category that uses local movers at each Tad and air Force planes Over water. One company official explaining the rate system said forwarders purposely charge High Rales in certain areas where they Don t want the business. Ken Armstrong chief executive officer of sound forwarders said the selection of his Bothell wash., firm to handle High Cost moves puzzled me so much thai he called his Dala process in service 10 verify that his copy of the rate list for Washington. D.c., was Correct. You know where you stand in relation to other companies Armstrong said. A Low rate tells them the army that we want to do business in that area. Anything Way out of line tells hem we Don t want business in that area. But we re required to handle ill ship ments tendered to us. If you turn a ship ment Back they would suspend us for non fulfilment of our contract. We have Many shipments Given to us where we re Way Over the Low amount. From our standpoint it does t make any sense he added Kaine said the error occurred because the shipping rates for the District of co Lumbia area include military installations in nearby Virginia. One or More clerks in Frankfurt seeing a Northern Virginia destination for the ship ment assumed Thill the Virginia Rales wind sends c-130 smashing into 8 helicopters parked at army Airfield Byton Nauroth staff writer Herzl base. Germany seventy three Milc per hour winds blew a crashed air Force c-1 30 into eight Heli copters parked at an army Airfield near Gic Belstadt shortly before 10 . Sun Day. The c-130 transport plane has been at the 3rd inf Oil Airfield for Over a year since pan of its Landing gear apparently collapsed while it was Landing and the aircraft caught fire. Officials said the helicopters belong to the 1st inf div from fort Riley kan., in Germany on certain Sentinel Maneu vers. There were no injuries. The wind picked up the c-130 Hull and wings threw in Down the runway and smashed in into the helicopters said maj. Bob Mackenzie 3rd inf div spokesman. Exercise officials said major damage was done to an ah-1 cobra attack Heli copter and an Ull a Hucy Utility Heli copter. The other six aircraft received lesser damage. The officials had no immediate Esti mate on the Cost of the damage. This brings the total number of Heli copters involved in accidents and mis haps to ii. On Friday two collided killing one Soldier and injuring four others near Marker Evili along the Czechoslovakia n Border. On saturday another helicopter rolled Over on its Side Northeast of Bayreuth. One Crew Mem Ber had minor injuries. Some army units were reporting winds up la 90 Mph sunday also damaged by the c-130 were Sev eral Large German Ecsi Tetil Sel up in a redeployment Center for refer Ger re turn of forces to Germany troops re turning to the states Whit the exercise is Over. Six of the tents were destroyed. Cols were blown around helter shelter. It would have been havoc if the windstorm had happened during redeployment and soldiers had been sleeping there Mackenzie said. Officials said the redeployment As Sembly area will be operational by the end of the exercise. The c-130 was left in an out of the Way area and was not considered a a z? i now another 3rd inf div official said. He added thai the air Force has frequently returned to cannibalize it for spare parts because inc aircraft was unrepairable. Would apply and contacted a company that had Low rates for that state. However the Low Cost company for Vir Ginia usually turned out to be a High Cost firm for the Washington  Vir Ginia area. The forwarder billed the army Al its Washington Rale. For instance in the six month rate sched ule that began oct. 1, 1984, sound for warders was among 14 firms charging $29.91 per hundredweight for arranging shipments from Frankfurt to parts of Vir Ginia that did not include the Washington area. Sound s rate to the District of Columbia and its suburbs was j347,26 a Hundred weight for the same period there arc some areas where our under lying costs arc Loo great Armstrong Laid in explaining the differences. I know delivery costs in do. Are far above Norfolk va., where there Are a lot of Navy personnel. Our intent is to do business in the Norfolk area. But it s not Worth doing business in the Washington . Area. In Norfolk it costs us $4.95 per Hun dred pounds and in ., it s $16.90 per Hundred  Kaine said his command is trying to de Termine who Lucr it can recover any Money from the forwarders. News update Ricky Nelson estate los Angeles up Pott Singer Ricky Nelson who was kilted in a plane crash on new year s eve left his entire estate to his four Chil Dren. He left nothing to his former wife his Fiancee or his Mother Harriet Nelson. A copy of the will daled aug. 22, 1985, and placed in a sequestered file in Superior court shows that he left his estate to his three adult children. Tracy Matthew and Gunnar and la his one minor son Sam ii Superior court judge Julius Lee Ham appointed Nelson s brother David special administrator of the Wil even though Nelson s sex wife Kristin had made application for the position. The court papers make no Esti mate of the Worth of Nelson s estate. 1