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Military Contractor On Trial, Love Of Patriotic Bling Revealed
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 27, 2010
Modified Jul 27, 2010
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At the trial of DHB military contractor David Brooks, who is accused of fraud and insider trading, his former CFO Dawn Schlegel has been testifying for 23 days. The NY Times reports from the trial, being held at a district court on Long Island, "DHB, which specialized in making body armor used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, paid for more than $6 million in personal expenses on behalf of Mr. Brooks, covering items as expensive as luxury cars and as prosaic as party invitations, Ms. Schlegel testified. Also included were university textbooks for his daughter, pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, prostitutes for his employees, and, for him, a $100,000 American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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