Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said.
The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.
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Question - What are your thoughts ?
2007-08-17 09:18:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Another Government agency who missed the Oversight part. The GAO I have been complaining about when people want more government in their life, like nationalized health care. Why didn't the Government Accounting Office catch this long before it got to millions?
2007-08-17 09:46:35 · answer #1 · answered by libsticker 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They should be sued AND the Pentagon overseer should be fired. Watch nothing happens to either one. Yet if I walk into a bank and steal a million dollars, I'd have a SWAT team sniper's red dot on my forhead.
2007-08-17 16:30:14 · answer #2 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to answer a question with a question, but can the Pentagon be liable for this fraud as well?
2007-08-17 16:38:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a friend of the Dems. Wait and see.
2007-08-17 16:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by junglejoe 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah I caught this in the paper this AM.
Glad they caught those crooks and will start to liquidate their assets to recover as much of the money as possible.
2007-08-17 16:27:48 · answer #5 · answered by Mark A 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
.... those things better have been made of pure plutonium lol.
but seriously.. if those numbers are correct.. that's pretty sad.
2007-08-17 16:29:40 · answer #6 · answered by pip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's true, but they were REALLY GOOD washers!
2007-08-17 16:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mitchell . 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋