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Look at that, we are making our way towards the end of another month.

Welcome to the P.D.B.DB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears

on the world stage. Let's get briefed. First, defense contractor Raytheon, you've probably heard of them, well they've been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion with a B, $1 billion in restitution

for engaging in a large-scale campaign to defraud the Department of Defense, yes, the U.S.

Department of Defense defrauded by a U.S. defense contractor, go figure.

Oh, as well as for accepting bribes from the Qatari government.

Gets even better.

Then an update on yesterday's terror attack in Turkey,

as the Turkish Air Force retaliates with a wave of airstrikes against Kurdish targets in Iraq and Syria,

because as you know, well, we didn't already have enough conflict in the world. But first, our afternoon spotlight.

U.S. defense contractor Raytheon has been taking some incoming fire facing allegations

that they engaged in a campaign to defraud the Department of Defense

while accepting bribes from a government official in Qatar to score new contracts.

Well, that doesn't sound very patriotic. The arms maker allegedly massively inflated

the price of certain government contracts over the past decade costing the US government

more than $100 million.

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