WASHINGTON D.C. — A giant defense firm may be passing off another company’s equipment as its own, which could have played a role in a potentially corrupt U.S. arms sale to Kenya that the State Department approved on the Obama administration’s last day in office.
Breitbart News has obtained photos of L-3 Technologies using marketing materials at a recent international defense conference featuring a small plane produced by IOMAX USA, Inc., a small, disabled-veteran-owned company based in North Carolina.
The photos show an L-3 banner and poster at their booth at the 2017 International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) in February featuring IOMAX’s “Archangel” aircraft — an armed crop-duster-like aircraft used by U.S. partners for border patrol, surveillance, and close air support.
L-3 passing off the aircraft as its own could potentially explain how it got exclusive approval for a lucrative $418 million contract to produce 14 such planes for the Kenya Defense Forces, despite never having produced the planes before and IOMAX’s ability to produce them for much less.
Under the contract, Kenya would spend $364.4 million on the aircraft and $53.6 million on other services. The IOMAX representative said it could produce the planes for $237 million — about $127.4 million less than L-3.
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4 comments:
Firm must have been Democrats
Obama's airforce for when he is expelled from the US and all assets seized and pension checks cut-off when found to be a non-US citizen since he received foreign student grants and government embezzlement. Another way Obama screwed the US tax payer. Since the only thing threatening in Kenya is the animals.
This is how Obama gets these fantastic book deals. Iran owes him one and now so does L3 Communications.
Cancel the contract and litigate against the frauds.
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