"all it takes for wealthy individuals to access billions of dollars in federal contracts is a $10 P.O. Box and a bottle of Wite-Out."
"Contracting abuses found in small-business program" by Hope Yen, Associated Press | July 17, 2008
Why not? There are everywhere else in this government?
WASHINGTON - Companies collected tens of millions of dollars in government contracts by claiming to have main offices in poor neighborhoods that were actually empty duplexes, part-time offices, and other ineligible locations, congressional investigators charge.
Sounds like a KBR tactic!
Billions more remain at risk because the Small Business Administration doesn't usually check paperwork, rarely conducts audits, and is slow to kick out firms that are no longer eligible for the $8 billion in contract set-asides for small businesses, the Government Accountability Office said.
Also improperly certified were four bogus firms set up by the GAO claiming fake principal locations in HUBZone areas that were actually a
Representative Nydia M. VelDazquez, Democrat of New York, who chairs the House Committee on Small Business and requested the reports:
"You have to wonder about the Bush administration and its commitment to disadvantaged communities, when all it takes for wealthy individuals to access billions of dollars in federal contracts is a $10 P.O. Box and a bottle of Wite-Out."
Well what do you know?
Ron Paul is RIGHT AGAIN!
