{"id":727168,"date":"2021-09-07T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=727168"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T18:50:19","slug":"report-us-investigating-raytheon-over-possible-bribes-paid-to-armed-forces-consultant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-us-investigating-raytheon-over-possible-bribes-paid-to-armed-forces-consultant\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: US Investigating Raytheon Over Possible Bribes Paid To Armed Forces Consultant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-us-investigating-raytheon-over-possible-bribes-paid-to-armed-forces-consultant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=727168&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/RTSXCIB-e1625608283373-scaled.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. government is investigating the weapons manufacturer Raytheon for granting payments to a consultant for the Qatar Armed Forces (QAF) that may in fact have been bribes for a high-level member of the Qatari government, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The potential bribe first came to light in a 2020 California lawsuit, which alleged \u2014 among other things \u2014 that Raytheon had funneled roughly $1.9 million through Digital Soula Systems, a Qatari defense consulting firm partially owned by the brother of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/MC6kc#selection-4303.202-4303.223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to WSJ<\/a>. The SEC and Department of Justice (DOJ) have investigated Raytheon for fraud accusations in the past as well, with the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nv\/pr\/raytheon-company-agrees-pay-1-million-settlement-claim-involving-procurement-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreeing to pay<\/a> a $1 million settlement for procurement fraud allegations in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. is investigating whether the payments were a de facto bribe to the Emir\u2019s brother in an effort to increase Qatar\u2019s budget for defense systems. Raytheon has made $7 billion in military contracts with Qatar since 2014, according to WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>Raytheon most recently came into the public eye for reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/06\/raytheon-defense-contractor-crt-white-employees-privilege\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pushing Critical Race Theory (CRT) on its employees<\/a>. Leaked internal documents showed that the company encouraged its white employees to confront their \u201cprivilege,\u201d reject the principle of \u201cequality\u201d and to advocate for \u201cdefund the police.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/common-lies-pro-critical-race-theory-media-telling-concerned-parents-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: The Three Most Common Lies Pro-CRT Media Is Telling Concerned Parents And The Public)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"15.451428571429\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SCOOP: Raytheon, the nation\u2019s second-largest defense contractor, has launched a critical race theory program that encourages white employees to confront their \u201cprivilege,\u201d reject the principle of \u201cequality,\u201d and \u201cdefund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s review the internal documents.\ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1412460830000508928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn America, if you are white or Christian or able-bodied or straight or English-speaking, these particular identities are easy to forget. This is called \u2018ordinary privilege\u2019 because these identities and traits easily blend in with the people and norms around us,\u201d Raytheon\u2019s program states.<\/p>\n<p>Raytheon\u2019s rival and the largest military contractor in the U.S., Lockheed Martin, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/lockheed-martin-white-male-privilege-training-christopher-rufo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has also been found<\/a> to push CRT on its employees in recent months. The company reportedly held a 3-day training conference for white male executives aimed at deconstructing \u201cprivilege\u201d and understanding how white male behavior is \u201cdevastating\u201d to victim groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government is investigating the weapons manufacturer Raytheon for granting payments to a consultant for the Qatar Armed Forces (QAF) that may in fact have been bribes for a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}