Boy this one sure got hushed up quickly!
Senior Navy civilians investigated in alleged scheme to defraud military for $1.6 million.
Federal authorities are investigating three senior Navy intelligence officials as part of a probe into an alleged contracting scheme that charged the military $1.6 million for homemade firearm silencers that cost only $8,000 to manufacture, court records show.
The three civilian officials, who oversee highly classified programs, arranged for a hot-rod auto mechanic in California to build a specially ordered batch of unmarked and untraceable rifle silencers and sell them to the Navy at more than 200 times what they cost to manufacture, according to court documents filed by federal prosecutors.
WaPo Story here
The best part: the "Hot Rod Mechanic" is the brother of one of the "officials"!
$1.6 million for homemade suppressors costing $8k to make
1 "il corporativismo è la pietra angolare dello Stato fascista" Translated, this means: "boom-shacka-lacka-lacka,-boom-boom-boom.