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ARMY CAPTAIN CAUGHT STEALING $700K FROM The lure of "easy money" was apparently too much for one Army civil affairs captain in Iraq to resist. A Federal Grand jury, sitting in Portland, Ore., has returned an indictment against Michael Dung Nguyen, charging he stole nearly $700,000 in government funds earmarked for "humanitarian and reconstruction" projects in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sources tell MilitaryCorruption.com the 28 year-old officer would ship home stacks of tightly bound hundred-dollar bills to his home in Beaverton, Ore. The captain might have gotten away with the alleged theft, except his moving unusually large amounts of cash in and out of his Stateside bank account set off "alarm bells" and the Feds were called in to investigate ALLEGED THEFTS TOOK PLACE OVER TWO-YEAR PERIOD Court papers show Nguyen siphoned off the funds while assigned to Muqdadiyah, Iraq between April 2007 and this past February. U.S. Attorney Karin Immergut told MCC the Army officer had displayed a "shocking" amount of greed in grabbing up such a huge pile of money. We don't enjoy writing so many articles (see "related stories box" below) about fraud and corruption by U.S. military personnel overseas, but MilitaryCorruption.com is not in the business of re-writing Pentagon press hand-outs. Just ask Maj. Jill Metzger, the pampered and protected former Air Force "poster girl" who, while rated 100% disabled from PTSD and on the Air Foce TDRL, ran the Air Force and Marine Corps Marathons this year. You, dear reader, saw that here, not in the Washington POST or New York TIMES. And certainly not in the Air Force TIMES. Maybe that's why, with your help over the past nine years, we have become the fastest-growing military-oriented investigative web site in the world. For that, we thank you.
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