{"id":9232,"date":"2011-08-02T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2011-08-02T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T19:34:30","slug":"two-former-schofield-soldiers-plead-guilty-of-bribery-and-conspiracy-regarding-20-million-military-contract-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9232","title":{"rendered":"Two former Schofield soldiers plead guilty of bribery and conspiracy regarding $20 million military contract in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/news\/20110802_pair_admit_guilt_in_afghan_bribery_case.html\">Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two former Schofield Barracks soldiers who were scheduled to go to trial today on bribery, conspiracy and money laundering charges involving a $20 million military contract in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Monday in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Army Sgt. Charles O. Finch pleaded guilty to one count each of bribery and conspiracy, while Sgt. Maj. Gary O. Canteen pleaded guilty to one count of bribery.<\/p>\n<p>Both face up to five years in prison for the bribery charges, while Finch faces up to 15 years for the conspiracy charge.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>According to Finch&#8217;s and Canteen&#8217;s plea agreements, $100,000 of the bribe money went into the bank account of a Pearl City T-shirt and souvenir shop owned by Canteen. The two men then split the money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honolulu Star Advertiser reports: Two former Schofield Barracks soldiers who were scheduled to go to trial today on bribery, conspiracy and money laundering charges involving a $20 million military contract in Afghanistan pleaded guilty Monday in federal court. Retired Army Sgt. Charles O. Finch pleaded guilty to one count each of bribery and conspiracy, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two former Schofield soldiers plead guilty of bribery and conspiracy regarding $20 million military contract in Afghanistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-9232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9232\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}