Billions of Dollars Unaccounted For in Iraq数十亿美元下落不明，在伊拉克
MotherJones motherjones | Want to see a signature worth $320 million? |希望看到一个签名价值3.2亿美元？ Click here点击这里 . 。 It belongs to Jack Gardner, an official with the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, who in July 2003 authorized that amount to be transferred to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance for the payment of Iraqi salaries.它属于杰克加德纳，正式与现在停业的联军临时权力机构，谁在2003年7月认可这一数额将移交给伊拉克财政部用以支付伊拉克的薪酬。 There are no other records of the transfer, just Mr. Gardner’s John Hancock.有没有其他的纪录，转让，刚才先生加德纳的约翰汉考克。 Now that’s power.现在的电源。
The payment is but one example of the process by which US dollars have disappeared without a trace into the confusion (and, yes, corruption) of Iraq reconstruction, confounding Pentagon auditors who are now trying to find out where all that money went… and what exactly, if anything, the US got in return.付款，只不过是其中一个例子的过程中，其中美元已消失得无影无踪进入混乱（和，是的，腐败）伊拉克重建，混淆五角大楼审计谁正试图寻找出所有的金钱去… …和什么正是，若有的话，美国得到的回报。
One such auditor is Mary L. Ugone, the Pentagon’s deputy inspector general for audit. 1 ，如核数师是玛丽研究ugone ，五角大楼的副监察长审计。 Her testimony this morning before Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) Committee on Oversight and Government Reform coincided with the release of a new report from Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General, which reviewed over 180,000 payments made by the Pentagon to contractors in Iraq, Kuwait, and Egypt, totaling approximately $8.2 billion.她的证词，今天上午前众议员亨利韦克斯曼的（ d-calif. ）委员会的监督和政府的改革正好与释放一份新的报告从五角大楼办公室的监察长，审查超过18.0万的款项，由五角大楼承包商在伊拉克，科威特，埃及，合共约82亿美元。 Of that, the Pentagon admits that it cannot properly account for how $7.8 billion—“a stunning 95% failure rate in following basic accounting standards,” Waxman said in his opening statement.这一点，五角大楼承认，它不能妥善帐户如何七十八万点零万美元- “惊人的95 ％ ，不合格率在下列基本的会计标准， ”沃克斯曼说：在他的开幕发言。
The IG report details how $135 million was paid to the governments of the United Kingdom, South Korea, Poland, and others contributing troops to Iraq without any mechanism for determining how it was used.该报告详细介绍了免疫球蛋白如何1.35亿美元支付给美国政府，英国，韩国，波兰，和其他有助于向伊拉克派兵没有任何的机制，确定它是怎么用的。 Another $1.8 billion in seized Iraqi assets were also simply given away, without any accountability.另一项18亿美元，在检获的伊拉克资产，也只是离开，没有任何的责任。 IG investigators examined 53 payment invoices.免疫球蛋白的调查研究53付款发票。 Not one made note of the money’s ultimate destination.没有一个注意到钱的最终目的地。
Together with a separate Pentagon IG report released last November, which showed the Defense Department could not account for at least $5 billion issued to Iraqi security forces (causing it to lose track of nearly all of the 13,508 rifles, machine guns, and RPGs it provided to Iraqi troops), today’s report sets the new total of Pentagon Iraq funds lost or stolen at almost $15 billion.连同一个单独的免疫球蛋白，五角大楼公布的报告，去年11月，这表明美国国防部无法帐户至少五十亿元发给伊拉克安全部队（导致它失去的轨道几乎所有的13508步枪，机枪，火箭弹和它提供向伊拉克部队） ，今天的报告列出新的共五角大楼的伊拉克资金丢失或被盗，几乎150亿美元。
To date, Pentagon auditors have referred 28 cases to criminal investigators.迄今为止，五角大楼的核数师曾提到28例，以刑事调查。
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