“Are
you kidding me?” said Carlos C. Robles, the machinist who made 349
silencers for his boss at a cost of $8,000, including parts and labor,
when he found out that they were sold to the Navy for $1.6 million.
Who could blame him? Given the known facts of the situation, that’s a pretty natural response.
See, Robles’ boss, Mark Stuart Landersman, a 52-year-old auto
mechanic from Temecula, California, was awarded a handsome contract by
the Navy to make silencers in Auguts 2012.
Some may call it a stroke of luck because Landersman was facing hard
times, struggling to make ends meet. Earlier that year, he and his wife
declared bankruptcy. Now, the Navy was dumping $1.6 million into his
lap.
Others, however, believing that no one is that lucky, began to
suspect something was up. After all, why would the Navy pay an auto
mechanic such a large sum of money to make silencers?
So began the Federal probe into the matter, which revealed that
Landersman’s has a brother. His name is David W. Landersman, the senior
director for intelligence in the Navy’s directorate for plans, policy,
oversight and integration intelligence. Which is a fancy way of saying
the guy who calls the shots.
Investigators also discovered that before Landersman was given the
funds, his brother had sent him several emails about how to make
silencers, including a website with do-it-yourself instructions.
“Wow! Very simple,” Mark Landersman replied in an email on Aug. 14, 2012, according to the charging documents obtained by The Washington Post.
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