Saturday, April 14, 2012
Government at Work - Taking care of our money
And they can't agree on whose job it is?...
Del Quentin Wilber and Robert O’Harrow recently reported this in the Washington Post:
"The private contractors and government employees skimmed millions from the Army Corps of Engineers in what authorities have described as one of the most brazen contracting scams in federal government history.
From 2007 through September, the contractors and two program managers at the Army Corps inflated $25 million in contract orders by $20 million — pocketing the proceeds to buy cars, flat-screen televisions and expensive jewelry, federal prosecutors allege.
So where was the oversight? And how did the scam go on for so long?"
