Inquiry Targets Ebay Sellers of MRE Military Meals

[mandy]

A Barstow man who was selling military meals on EBay attracted a lot of interest — from federal investigators who wanted to track down his supplier.

The man, one of a handful of people nationwide targeted for selling government-supplied Meals Ready to Eat, tried to implicate local Boy Scouts. Investigators, however, suspect the MREs may have been smuggled from the Ft. Irwin National Training Center down the road.

The four-month inquiry into people peddling the meals online stemmed from tips to a federal fraud and abuse hotline. Investigators chose Oct. 18 for a "snapshot" study, which identified eight people selling more than four cases of meals on the popular auction website EBay...

full article: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition...california

[bargainbloodhound]

The man, one of a handful of people nationwide targeted for selling government-supplied Meals Ready to Eat, tried to implicate local Boy Scouts.

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