Security violations at Balad airbase: trafficking

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AP: U.S. contractor ignored security violations at Iraq base
7 AP May 3, 2017 4:57 AM EDT

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An American company that was paid nearly $700 million to secure an Iraqi base for F-16 fighter jets turned a blind eye to alcohol smuggling, theft, security violations, and allegations of sex trafficking -- then terminated investigators who uncovered wrongdoing, an Associated Press investigation has found.

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The fired investigators, Robert Cole and Kristie King, said they uncovered evidence that Sallyport employees were involved in human trafficking for prostitution. Staff on base routinely flew smuggled alcohol onto the base in such high volumes that a plane once seesawed on the tarmac under the weight. Rogue militia stole enormous generators using flatbed trucks and a 60-foot crane, driving right past Sallyport security guards.

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The investigators say company lawyers ordered them to keep two sets of books, which they interpreted as an attempt to deceive auditors.

"One for the government to see and one for the government not to see," King said.

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John DeBlasio is a Managing Director for Bootstrap Capital and is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s activities. He has over 25 years of international experience in both the public and private sector working around the world. Most recently he served as the Owner & CEO of Sallyport Global, a firm he co-founded in 2004 to provide contingency operational support to the United States Government in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

John spent much of the last nine years traveling to Asia, Europe and the Middle East in support of Sallyport’s operations. John is also the founder of the GPD Charitable Trust which is focused on democracy promotion and late-teen/early adult intervention programs.

Prior to joining Sallyport, John worked in various sales and management roles in the commercial sector for companies such as General Electric, Philip Morris and META Group. John graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and was recalled to active duty in 2003 to serve in Operation Iraqi Freedom as an officer in the US Army. He later retired after 21-years of reserve and active service as a Lieutenant Colonel.

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West Point Grad Smeared By Charges Of Murder And Necrophilia For Hire, Sex Trafficking And Drug Smuggling: Lawsuit

The lawsuit also said there were false allegations of arms trafficking to the Taliban, ISIS and Chechen rebels.

Joseph Hosey (Patch Staff) - January 16, 2015 5:07 pm ET ?

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The defamatory statements involved accusations of murder for hire, necrophilia for hire, drug smuggling, the sexual trafficking of minors, tax evasion, and “illicit trafficking in arms, including supplying guns to the Taliban, ISIS and Chechen rebels,” the suit said.

Wadhams sued DeBlasio and two of his employees in 2010. Some of her claims included incidents in which DeBlasio allegedly “commented on the size of Sabrina Marie Wadhams’ feet and requested that she masturbate him ‘with her feet,’” asked her to “’strangle him with her hair’ in the course of sex acts,” and requested she “’masturbate with raw hamburger meat,’ then cook the meat and ‘feed it to him,’” her lawsuit said.

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