War Profiteering Trial Begins Tomorrow

The first civil fraud case against a U.S. contractor accused of war profiteering in Iraq goes to trial tomorrow in federal court in Alexandria. It pits two whistle-blowers against two former Army officers whose company, Custer Battles LLC, won multimillion-dollar contracts in the aftermath of the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Robert J. Isakson and William D. "Pete" Baldwin, who worked for the company in Iraq, accuse its founders, Scott Custer and Michael Battles, of overcharging the government millions of dollars by running inflated expense billings through a series of shell companies they created.

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