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Jan. 14, 2011

Goggle Makers On Trial for Fraud

Two Canadian men who lost a U.S. Army bid to make night-vision goggles paid their rival and now stand trial for fraud.


By Rebecca Beyer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - In late 2004, when the U.S. Army invited bids from contractors to supply the Iraqi Army with night vision goggles, two Canadian men whose company fulfilled a similar order the year before made a bid for the job.


They lost. Now, six years later, the men are facing criminal charges in a trial that opened Wednesday in San Francisco federal court. Prosecutors claim Mendel Beker and Arie P...

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