A military contractor has been indicted for providing armored vehicles for use in Iraq that weren’t properly protected. Armet Armored Vehicles and its 67-year-old president William R. Whyte were indicted on three counts of major fraud, seven counts of wire fraud and three counts of false, fictitious and fraudulent claims, the Justice Department announced.
The company claimed the vehicles it was providing for use by VIPs in 2006 met specific requirements, including being resistant to armor-piercing bullets, an undercarriage with mine plating protection and run-flat tires.
“Armet and Whyte knew that each of the six armored gun trucks failed to meet the required standards, that they were defective and that they would not protect the officials they were intended to protect,” according to a DOJ press release.
