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Oct 7, 2008 12:36 pm US/Central

Former Contractor Pleads Guilty To Iraq Fuel Theft

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) ― A former Army contractor has pleaded guilty to theft after admitting he and others stole nearly $40 million in jet and diesel fuel from a U.S. Army base in Iraq.

Thirty-two-year-old Lee W. Dubois of Lexington, S.C., appeared in court Tuesday and faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced.

Dubois is a former Army captain who later took a job with a Kuwait-based contractor called Future Services General Trading & Contracting Co.

Dubois admitted he and others used false paperwork to draw more than 10 million gallons of fuel from Camp Liberty in Baghdad to sell on the black market.

Court papers indicate Dubois personally earned at least $450,000 from the scheme.

(© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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