Diveroli controlled AEY, Inc., a company that secured significant contracts as a major weapons contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense. AEY was suspended by the U.S. government due to contractual violations.

David Mordechai Packouz (/ pækhaʊs / born February 17, 1982) is an American former arms dealer, convicted fraudster, musician and inventor. Packouz joined Efraim Diveroli on the 17th of September 2005, in Diveroli's arms company AEY Inc. By the end of 2006, the company had won 149 contracts worth around $10.5 million. [1] .

May 6, 2023 · In 2007, 21-year-old arms dealer Efraim Diveroli and his 25-year-old partner David Packouz won $200 million worth of government contracts for their fledgling company AEY. The precocious character Jonah Hill portrays in "War Dogs" isn't far off from the true story of 20-year-old international gunrunner Efraim Diveroli.

May 11, 2024 · They grew apart and met several years later when Efraim invited a financially struggling David to work for him at his company called AEY. An unknown entity at first, it soon turns into a giant whose downfall is just as spectacular as its rise.

Mar 16, 2011 · AEY was giving the Swiss arms broker just over four cents per round and reselling them to the Pentagon for 10 cents. But Diveroli suspected that Thomet was ripping him off. He turned out to...

Jan 27, 2025 · Before the government banned his company, AEY, from getting a government contract, AEY was a major weapons contractor for the United States Department of Defense. American author and former arms dealer Efraim Diveroli.

David runs into his old friend Efraim Diveroli, who has formed his own company, AEY Inc., selling arms to the US government for the ongoing war in Iraq. Iz informs David she is pregnant, and Efraim offers him a job at AEY; although David and Iz …

May 11, 2024 · Efraim Diveroli lives in Miami, Florida, and has bid goodbye to his days as an international arms dealer, though he continues to run AEY, Inc. in some capacity. Both he and the company had been debarred from dealing in arms until 2025.

Diveroli and his company, AEY Inc., are also believed to have dealt with illegal arms traffickers and covered up the fact that tens of millions of the rifle and machine gun cartridges he supplied were illegally obtained from China. The Army awarded the contract to AEY early last year.

Sep 7, 2009 · The 23-year-old gun-runner and president of Miami Beach arms firm AEY, Inc. faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. In 2005, at age 19, Diveroli inherited AEY from his father.