Contractor Appeals Sentence For Cash Smuggling
Associated Press - Wed 07:57 AM 02/20/2013
Garst pleaded guilty in November to one count of bulk cash smuggling for trying to ship the undeclared cash in a DHL box from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
A private contractor from Kansas is appealing his sentence for trying to smuggle $150,000 from Afghanistan to his ex-wife in the U.S. in what the government contends was part of a larger kickback scheme.
The attorney for Donald Gene Garst filed a notice of appeal Tuesday from the court order accepting the guilty plea. He is also appealing last week's prison sentence of 2 1/2 years and more than $52,000 fine.
Garst pleaded guilty in November to one count of bulk cash smuggling for trying to ship the undeclared cash in a DHL box from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Garst has recanted an earlier statement that the money came from a kickback scheme to steer subcontracts to an Afghan company. He now claims he won the money gambling.
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t--bone
Wednesday 20 February 2013 08:08 Report this comment
How about all the money that headed back to the states from Iraq when it was discovered in the Palace. Nothing was said and done about any of that. There were many people who benefited from that.
Haneyjhawk
Wednesday 20 February 2013 11:25 Report this comment
Not enough people benefited from that. Like me, where's my cut?
Aurora.
Thursday 21 February 2013 00:16 Report this comment
Evidently you were not serving your country.