Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-07-24 | Page 15 | Gross Fraud Extends to Many U. S. Orders

HE SALT LAKE TELEGRAM VI GROSS f I I TO I II I MAY LS L'S I i I I ORDERS R v V Vile 1 e Pr Profiteering in Shoes Shirts and Almost Almost Almost Al Al- most All S Sol Soldiers Soldiers' o 1 d d i e r s s' s Supplies Discovered ove ed By Associated Press July 24 I W vy Fraud and gross gros pro profiteering profiteer ing has been uncovered in inmany many contracts for fot army shoes shirts leggings and other soldiers soldiers' supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies and equipment as as a result of investigation by ar army Intelligence and department of Justice agents it was learned today Information shedding light on methods by by which manufacturers were able to pass jass or articles tg fill government contracts Is understood understood understood under under- stood to have been gathered from new confessions conCessions of some of of the eighteen raincoat contractors under arrest in New York charged with bribery fraud or conspiracy PROSECUTION FOR ALL Action will be pe e taken taken against the theother theother theother other manufacturers manufacturers' as rapidly as specific proof roof of fraud is developed An outgrowth of the campaign against graft and fraud in army contracts contracts contracts con con- I tracts is the discovery overy that some some of officers officers officers of- of in he quartermasters quartermaster's corps responsible for placing contracts contract continue continue continue con con- Illegally t to tb receive salaries from concerns which employed them in civil life INFLUENCE USED A large number of officers are said to have been been given commissions through the influence o of their former Employers It is charged that certain companies have been able ble through this personal contact to dictate specifications specifications and other i details of contracts contracts con con- tracts favorable to th their lr r methods of ot manufacture J 1 DOLLAR A VEAR MEN Another Another reform berng being worked out in Washington as of discovery discovery dis dis- I covery of of contract frauds is the gradual elimination J of f men assisting the government from the nominal pay or dollar a year year basis and payment of adequate salaries on which they can live without r resorting to to from special In interests in- in