An American military contractor was sentenced earlier this week to 51 months in prison for her role in a theft ring on a military installation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Varita V. Quincy, 35, of Snellville, Georgia pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2020, to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit theft of property of value to the United States and one count of making false statements, a Department of Justice release states.
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According to court documents, Quincy admitted that between April 2015 and July 2015 she and others conspired to and did steal generators, a truck and other items worth over $150,000. Larry Green, one of her co-conspirators, negotiated the sale of the stolen property with a middleman, who in turn facilitated the sale of the items to unknown persons in Kandahar.
Quincy used her position as a security badging and escort pass supervisor to create or cause to be made false official documents which helped “unknown and unvetted Afghan nationals and their vehicles on to the military installation and effectuated the removal of the stolen property from the installation. The falsified documents were used to deceive security officers and gate guards and compromised the security of U.S. military and civilian personnel on the military installation,” the release states.
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Green pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit theft of property of value to the United States; one count of theft of property of value to the United States; and one count of aiding and abetting the submission of false statements, and was sentenced on Nov. 19, 2020, to 41 months in prison and ordered to pay $179,708 in restitution.
Quincy also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $179,708 and her sentence reflected her fraudulent post-trial conduct of submitting altered documents to the court on her behalf in advance of sentencing.
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