A federal judge has overturned a $10 million jury award -- the first civil fraud verdict arising from the Iraq war -- against a military contractor accused of defrauding the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III ruled that any fraud by Custer Battles was perpetrated against the provisional authority formed to run Iraq until a government was established, and that the trial evidence failed to show that the U.S. government was the victim, even though U.S. taxpayers ultimately footed the bill.
August 21, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A federal judge has overturned on a technicality a $10 million jury verdict against a military contractor accused of defrauding the U.S. government in the first months of the Iraq war.
The award, levied in March against Virginia-based Custer Battles LLC, had been the first civil fraud verdict arising from the Iraq war.
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