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(Fox News) - A parts supplier in South Carolina has pleaded guilty to ripping off the Pentagon for more than $20 million in fraudulent shipping costs. Included: Charging almost $1 million for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas army base; $455,000 to send three machine screws to Iraq, and $293,000 to ship an 89-cent washer to Cape Canaveral.

The owners of the company took advantage of an automated purchasing system that automatically paid bills marked "priority". Pentagon officials say they have since changed the system.