David John Welch, former operations and maintenance manager for Fluor, pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal military generators in Iraq and sell them on the black market. According to the government, Welch was working for Fluor at Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, Iraq when, in October 2011, Welch and a co-conspirator entered into a scheme to steal and sell approximately 38 generators on the black market by diverting the generators from the Defense Reutilization & Marketing Office (DRMO) to an undisclosed off-base location. After the generators were stolen from the compound, Welch’s co-conspirator gave him approximately $38,600 in cash. As part of the plea, Welch agreed to pay $160,000 in restitution. In July 2012, Welch was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release.