The Pentagon has paid $1.1 trillion to hundreds of defense contractors and their parent companies that have defrauded the government over the past ten years, according to a Department of Defense report released Thursday.
More than 300 contractors involved in civil and criminal fraud cases that resulted in judgments of $1 million or more during the last decade were paid a total of $573.7 billion by the US military, including $398 billion that was paid to contractors after judgments for fraud. When awards to parent companies are included, the Pentagon awarded $1.1 trillion to the top 37 companies that defrauded the US military since 2000.
Raytheon, for example, spent nearly $4 million to settle a civil case with the government in 2002 and $2.5 million to settle a case in 2000. Since the cases were settled, the Pentagon has awarded Raytheon's aircraft and engineering divisions a total of $1.8 billion.
Lockheed Martin paid $10.5 million in 2008 to settle charges that the company submitted false invoices on a multibillion dollar contract connected to a space vehicle program. Despite the fraud, the Department of Defense awarded Lockheed $30.2 billion in contracts in 2009.
Lame attemps to try and make people believe thet defense budget cuts will make us vulnerable to terrorist threats.
ReplyDeleteWe keep rewarding the terrorists at Kellogg, Brown & Root, Haliburton and Lockheed-Martin the makers of WMD's with more money to burn in the name of national security.
Some of those deals that happened are the reason we have jails.
sorry, 11:04, the reason we have jails and prisons is to lock up people who have robbed a 7-11 for $28, stolen a car worth $22,000, or sold a bag pot to a cop. If you WANT to steal and NOT go to prison, you have to 1)bribe a Senator 2) think BIG, as in hundreds of millions 3)be caucasian. Satisfy those 3 requirements and you are golden. You might even become Vice -President. Jail are for the common man. The serfs.
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