David Packouz

Packouz was sentenced to seven months of house arrest for conspiracy to defraud the United States. He is the central subject of the Todd Phillips dramedy film War Dogs in 2016. Packouz himself has a cameo role in the film as a guitarist and singer at an elderly home.

In 2016 Packouz's company, Singular Sound, started a philanthropic partnership with non-profit organization Guitars Over Guns to provide BeatBuddy equipment to disadvantaged youth.

The story was published in Canadian journalist Guy Lawson's 2015 book Arms and the Dudes, and was produced into the 2016 film War Dogs by Todd Phillips.

In 2012, Packouz was arrested at Motel 82 in Naples, Florida after allegedly agreeing to have sex with an undercover Collier County deputy for $400, according to police.

Diveroli and David Packouz pled guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States under the general conspiracy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 371, in January 2011. Diveroli was sentenced to four years in federal prison, while Packouz was sentenced to seven months' house arrest.

Packouz has one daughter, Anabelle Jane, born in 2007.

Packouz joined Efraim Diveroli's arms company AEY Inc. in 2005; Efraim was only 19 years old at the time, while David was 23. By the end of 2006, they had won 149 contracts worth around $10.5 million. In early 2007, AEY secured a nearly $300 million U.S. government contract to supply the Afghan Army with 100 million rounds of AK-47 ammunition, millions of rounds for SVD Dragunov sniper rifles, and aviation rockets. The ammunition that AEY had secured in Albania to fulfill the contract had originally come from China, violating the terms of AEY's contract with the US Army, banning Chinese ammunition.

David Mordechai Packouz (/p æ k h aʊ s / born February 16, 1982) is an American former arms dealer, musician, inventor and entrepreneur. In 2005, Packouz (23 years old at the time) joined Efraim Diveroli (19 years old at the time) in Diveroli's arms company AEY Inc. By the end of 2006, the company had won 149 contracts worth around $10.5 million. In early 2007, AEY secured a nearly $300 million U.S. government contract to supply the Afghan Army with 100 million rounds of AK-47 ammunition, millions of rounds for SVD Dragunov sniper rifles, aviation rockets and other munitions. The ammunition that AEY had secured in Albania to fulfill the contract had originally come from China, violating the terms of AEY's contract with the US Army, which bans Chinese ammunition. Packouz was aware that the products were prohibited and would not be accepted, and was instrumental in the covering up of the origins of the ammunition. As a result of the publicity surrounding the contract and the age of the arms dealers – Packouz was 25 and Diveroli was 21 when AEY landed the ammunition deal – the United States Army began a review of its contracting procedures.

Packouz was born in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Jewish family. He is one of nine children, and the son of Shoshana and Rabbi Kalman Packouz, of the Orthodox Aish HaTorah, who authored the book How to Prevent an Intermarriage. Packouz was a Licensed Massage Therapist at the time of his working at AEY.