A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted an Army contracting officer, William Collins, on four counts of bribery and unlawful salary supplementation. Collins is accused of soliciting more than $30,000 in bribes from an Egyptian businessman in exchange for contracts to maintain off-post housing for military personnel in Kuwait.

In a related matter, contractor Terry Hall pleaded guilty to bribing Army contracting officers at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, as part of a bribes-for-contracts scheme from 2005 to 2007. Hall's companies received $21 million worth of contracts during that time. Almost half of that money involved a contract to deliver water bottles in Iraq and a contract to construct security fences at Camp Arifjan. Hall will pay $15.8 million to the U.S. government and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years. Hall is the eighth person to admit a role in the bribery scheme. Others who were implicated in the scheme are former Army Majs. Christopher Murray, John Cokerham and James Momon; all pleaded guilty to receiving bribes from Hall. The court sentenced Cokerham to more than 17 years in prison and Murray to more than four years in prison. Momon still awaits sentencing.