6:47 am - Thursday May 17, 2012

Ex-Army major pleads guilty to water deal bribes

A retired U.S. Army major has pleaded guilty to accepting $250,000 in bribes for contracts to supply bottled water to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Department of Justice says 49-year-old Derrick Shoemake entered pleas to two bribery counts Monday in federal court in Los Angeles.

While Shoemake served at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait in 2005 and 2006, he was in charge of delivering bottled water to troops.

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