The 10 Most Brazen War Profiteers

The his­tory of Amer­i­can war prof­i­teer­ing is rife with egre­gious exam­ples of incom­pe­tence, fraud, tax eva­sion, embez­zle­ment, bribery and mis­con­duct. As war his­to­rian Stu­art Bran­des has sug­gested, each new war is infected with new forms of war prof­i­teer­ing. Iraq is no excep­tion. From crim­i­nal mis­man­age­ment of Iraq’s oil rev­enues to armed pri­vate secu­rity con­trac­tors oper­at­ing with vir­tual impunity, this war has cre­ated oppor­tu­ni­ties for an appalling amount of cor­rup­tion. What fol­lows is a list of some of the worst Iraq war prof­i­teers who have bilked Amer­i­can tax­pay­ers and under­mined the military’s mission.

The 10 Most Brazen War Profiteers