Operation Thimble: A Look Back at the Multi-Million Dollar Defense Contract Fraud and Bribery Case at the Philadelphia Quartermaster

摘要

Back in the early 1980s, before I became a writer, I was ayoung Defense Department civilian employee doing securitywork at a DoD command in Philadelphia. I recall beingtasked with assisting a Defense Department attorney who wasworking on a case of procurement fraud against a contractorwho supplied the U.S. Army with substandard tires for trucksand other Army vehicles. The substandard tires might havecaused accidents and injured or killed soldiers.