This is just beyond belief. By this judge's logic, if you walk into a bank intending to cash a check, then decide while standing in line to stick the place up, you get to keep the money because you didn't start out with intent to rob.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria VA. Remember that name. You want to be in his jurisdiction just in case the chance to lie, cheat, steal, and defraud happens to come along and you want to do it all with judicial blessing.

A federal judge has dismissed a civil case against a military contractor accused of improperly billing Iraq reconstruction authorities for tens of millions of dollars worth of security services that it did not provide.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria said there was no evidence that Custer Battles, a firm started by Army veterans Scott Custer and Michael Battles, committed fraud under a $16.8 million contract to provide security at the Baghdad International Airport in 2003.