Bounty Hunting 0
The Army is investigating kickback fraud for recruiting recruits. In a program in which “recruiting assistants” were paid an “incentive” for convincing persons to enlist; the “assistants” used inside information to claim bounties incentive payments for convincing persons they had not convinced.
The program began, natch, in 2005 because the military was having difficulty meeting quotas for cannon-fodder for the wars of George the Worst. Fraud began to be suspected in 2007 and the Army shut the program down in 2011.
From my local rag:
The alleged fraud drew in recruiters, soldiers and civilians with ties to the military who submitted, or profited from, false referrals registered on a website run by a marketing firm the Army hired to run the program. Suspects often obtained the names of people who had enlisted from recruiters, claimed them as their referrals, and then kicked back some of the bonus money to the recruiters.
How very free market.
Many more details at the link.
