Some 300,000 Americans are buried at Arlington National Cemetery, among them war veterans, former presidents and U.S. Supreme Court justices. Oli Scarff / Getty Images6,600 Arlington Graves Might Be Mixed Up -- MSNBC
No audit at national cemetery in last decade, senator says at hearing.
WASHINGTON — The number of mislabeled graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be 6,600, the senator whose subcommittee is investigating potential contracting fraud there said Thursday.
"We now know that the problems with graves at Arlington may be far more extensive than previously acknowledged," Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said in her opening testimony at a hearing where the cemetery's former superintendent and deputy superintendent were subpoenaed to testify.
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