United States, Afghanistan
US Grants 22yr-old Miami Gun Dealer His $300 Million 'Hallucinatory Dream'
Miami Herald (Florida) / Knight-Ridder
30 Mar 2008
To the young man, caught in the tawdry glamour of South Beach, it must have seemed a hallucinatory dream: millions in military contracts simply for the asking. So Efraim Diveroli asked, bidding for the right to supply munitions to the Afghan Army. Nevermind that Diveroli, president of AEY Inc., was barely out of his teens. Or that AEY 's specialty was not arms-dealing but scrap-brokering. What mattered is that AEY offered the winning bid. And by 2007, the U.S. Army -- clearly impressed -- had awarded the company contracts worth almost $300 million. This week, embarrassed, it reconsidered. "You are hereby suspended from future contracting with any agency... ( gunpolicy.org )
