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The Pentagon’s chief internal watchdog official said that government prosecutors investigating fraud by major defense contractors are overmatched by corporations who “take us to the cleaners.” Joseph Sherick, the Defense Department’s inspector general, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that the government’s 3-year-old Defense Procurement Fraud Unit needs more and better-trained investigators to keep up with high-level corporate trickery.
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