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WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Jan. 10, ) -- Eddie Pressley, 41, a former U.S. Army contracting officer in Kuwait, was sentenced Thursday to months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a bribery and money-laundering scheme related to contracts in Iraq.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins in Birmingham, Ala., also ruled that Pressley must forfeit $21 million, as well as real estate and several automobiles.

To date, 17 individuals have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial in the ongoing corruption investigation, according to an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

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"Mr. Pressley participated in a wide-ranging scheme to steer U.S. Army contracts to particular providers in exchange for personal, illegal profit," said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer. "Taking in nearly $3 million, he enlisted his wife to help him c