COLUMBIA, S.C. AP – The owner of a defunct South Carolina company was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison for bilking the Pentagon out of $21 million she obtained by inflating military equipment shipping costs.

“Your Honor, I messed up. I messed up really bad,” Charlene Corley told U.S. District Judge Margaret Seymour before she was sentenced. “I want to apologize and say I’m really sorry.”