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Save Western Civilization => Save America => Topic started by: mosquewatch on August 19, 2007, 05:59:03 PM
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Our government hard at work.
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 owners of C&D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina -- twin sisters -- exploited a flaw in an automated Defense Department purchasing system: bills for shipping to combat areas or U.S. bases that were labeled ``priority'' were usually paid automatically, said Cynthia Stroot, a Pentagon investigator.
http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/08/17/brian-kalt-the-pentagon-s-million-dollar-washer.aspx (http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/08/17/brian-kalt-the-pentagon-s-million-dollar-washer.aspx)