> Complicating matters, perhaps, was Michael Taylor’s decade-old plea deal over an investigation into a Pentagon contract that he won to train Afghan special fo

> Complicating matters, perhaps, was Michael Taylor’s decade-old plea deal over an investigation into a Pentagon contract that he won to train Afghan special forces troops. I want to learn more about this part. You have to pretty severely fuck up in federal government/DoD contracting to get prosecuted and need to take a plea deal over some services you rendered (or didn't render properly) in an overseas military mission. edit: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/defendant-procurement-fraud-case-involving-services-afghanistan-sentenced-42-months https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/defendant-procurement-fra... ctrl-f for "michael taylor" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-former-soldiers-plead-guilty-230645195.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-former-soldiers-plead-guilt...