U.S. contractor's wife held in Germany

[deadparrot]

BERLIN - The wife of an American military contractor accused of cheating U.S. taxpayers has been arrested on suspicion of laundering her husband's ill-gotten gains after investigators seized about $1 million from her accounts, a prosecutor said Monday.

Jacqueline Battles, a German citizen, was detained after a German bank informed authorities about "suspicious transactions" on her accounts two months ago, prosecutor David Kirkpatrick told The Associated Press.

German investigators seized about $1 million in suspect funds, Kirkpatrick, a prosecutor in Darmstadt, said in a telephone interview.

"She is in investigative custody," Kirkpatrick said. Battles, who lives near Darmstadt, has not been formally charged and Kirkpatrick wouldn't say where she was being held or when she was taken into custody.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/germany_us_contractor_probe

[trotsky]

1. While in no way do I want to minimize the capture of an embezzler...

when will Halliburton's leadership be arrested for stealing a thousand times this much?

[NVMojo]

3. ah, it's easy to arrest the smalltime female crooks like Martha Stewart ..

[tocqueville]

2. One thing is sure, she won't be tortured....

Imagine if it has been the wife of an Al Quaeda executive captured in Afghanistan... Things are not like 65 years ago...

[TexasLawyer]

4. God damn these people

They're the real traitors. They stole our money and killed our troops:

<snip-- from the end of the articles>

One of the two whistleblowers who won the March verdict, Robert Isakson, is a plaintiff in a second civil lawsuit that claims two former Pentagon officials schemed with Custer and Battles to form sham companies that sold illegal weapons on Iraq's black market where they could be bought by insurgents, the AP reported in July.

The broader issue of contracting abuses in Iraq was the subject of a meeting to be conducted Monday by U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan (news, bio, voting record), a Democrat from North Dakota and chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, a party organization.

[Veronica.Franco]

5. Hasn't she heard of the Cayman Islands? ...

It's where the rest of Bushies friends keep their money ... ;-)