Number	25329
Subject	Iraq
Source	CNBC (Washington, D.C.)
State	DC
Year	2011
Publication Date	10/21/11
Summary	Revealing that every one of the billion dollar cash airlifts the NY Fed sent to Baghdad was met by the same man. He handled as much as 40 billion dollars in cash in the war zone between 2003 and 2008. On one occasion -- to dupe the insurgents who frequently attacked his currency convoys -- the courier placed a billion dollars in the back of a garbage truck and rolled it down "Route Irish," the unnamed military designation for what was the most dangerous road in the world. The courier accused unnamed Iraqi officials of being involved in theft of millions of dollars of the cash that he delivered into their vaults.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	6
Keywords	NY Fed; Iraq; fraud; theft
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