Shades of All My Sons!
The Arthur Miller play, based on true events, focused on the personal culpability and tragedies when a manufacturer knowingly ships cracked cylinder heads to World War II pilots, causing many deaths. Now a New Jersey defense contractor has re-created "All My Sons", this time by knowinly making substandard air filters for battle tanks.
This time, however, the conspirators were caught, and the filters, as far as is known, never made it to the battlefields. Among those caught in this fraud: a Defense Department quality assurance representative, who joined the plot and created false documents.
Given that, it's a good guess that bribery may have formed part of this case. The company landed a $1 million contract and decided to risk troops' lives by shaving off costs and processing substandard filters. Now the fines, let alone lawyers and court costs, could cost $1 million or more--and jail time.
But no matter what their costs, the conspirators still won't pay the price that troops who trusted those filters could have paid in combat.
A defense contractor has admitted manufacturing thousands of substandard air filters for the Army’s main battle tank, putting soldiers and Marines at risk, federal authorities said Friday.
The guilty plea by Parmatic Filter Corp., entered Thursday in U.S. District Court in Newark, was the fifth in the case. Two employees, a former employee and a former Defense Department worker have also pleaded guilty. Charges against the company’s president are pending.
The filters for the M-1 Abrams tank were to protect occupants from nuclear, biological and chemical contaminants.
Source: militarytimes.com
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