21 Year Old S. Florida Arms Dealer, BUSTED!! Selling Junk To Our Troops.

[tombogan03884]

My question is where are the corrupt Customs officials that allowed it through inspection ?

Tom, it wasn't an ICE problem it was a DOD IG issue. The DOD would be expected to sample the lot for complience not ICE.

If ICE had the paper work for rounds they are not looking to see if DOD bought crap ammo. If the import paper work was correct they were done.  If the boxes and paperwork said Albania and it was in fact ammo, they would let it pass if in fact it came to the US.

Lastly I didn't read that it was delivered directly to Afghanistan or to the US. If it never touched us soil, there would be little chance ICE would deal with anything but paper work.

How the hell do you manage to score a three hundred million dollar contract with the military at 21?

He submitted a bid on a DOD/Commerce RFQ. There are load of folks who have one or two people just read bid listings and write proposals. In my old job I would get 15 request for a bid that the DOD would list us as the supplier of the equipment. In fact many times we never even got sent the bid because these yokels supplied other stuff to the USN and were just acting as middle men.

If your company had an NSIC code and Federal ID number , you could bid  on just about anything.

The question would be why no one else protested the award of contract? They must have known the ammo had to come from the PRC.

FTA:

"Diveroli, president of AEY, and three of his employees had the machine-gun rounds removed from the wooden crates and metal tins that bore the Chinese markings, and repackaged the ammunition in cardboard boxes, the statement said.

The ammo was in Miami, it had to pass through customs as an import.

[ratcatcher55]

Where did the replacement take place Tom, in the US or overseas?

[tombogan03884]

He and the company were in Miami so it stands to reason that's where it took place, he doesn't sound like the type to take time out of his partying to go to China, or Albania long enough to repack millions of rounds of ammo.

[ratcatcher55]

He and the company were in Miami so it stands to reason that's where it took place, he doesn't sound like the type to take time out of his partying to go to China, or Albania long enough to repack millions of rounds of ammo.

He would not have had any problems having the ammo shipped to Albania and having them repackage it and ship it to the US or AFPAK.

[Ping]

Hmmm, they must not have done a background check on the person they were purchasing from??? Crazy all the crap that is going on and the waste on B.S. contracts.

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