A four-star AFRICOM commander misused funds and took contractor gifts

Evidence

And beyond such authorized perks, there are cases like that of the former Africa Command commander General William “Kip” Ward. Pentagon investigators found Ward “engaged in multiple forms of misconduct”—including billing the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars of personal travel and misusing government funds on luxury hotels, five-car motorcades, and spa and shopping trips for his wife. Ward also accepted free meals and tickets to a Broadway musical from an unnamed “construction management, engineering, technology and energy services company” with millions in Pentagon contracts. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 720

Categorization

• QUESTION: Was Ward’s disciplinary outcome representative of how the Pentagon treats flag-grade corruption?