ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — A second former executive of a global logistics company has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to receiving kickbacks on Iraq war contracts and lying to federal investigators.
Kevin Andre Smoot, 43, faces up to 15 years in prison and $500,000 in fines after pleading guilty Friday to making a false statement and violation of the Anti-Kickback Act before U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm.
Smoot, of The Woodlands, Texas, a Houston suburb, was the managing director of Eagle Global Logistics, Inc.'s freight forwarding station in Houston.
Christopher Cahill, the company's former regional vice president for the Middle East and India, plead guilty and was sentenced in August 2006 to 30 months in prison for inflating invoices for military shipments to Baghdad through EGL's subcontract with a Haliburton subsidiary named Kellogg, Brown and Root....
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