Posted on 07/16/2013 2:33:23 PM PDT by Nachum
Gallup Organization has agreed to pay the government $10.5 million to settle a false claims case against the company for allegedly inflating cost estimates in government contracts. The Justice Department announced the settlement Monday, resolving a complaint originally brought under the Whistleblower Protection Act by a former Gallup director of client services. Gallup, a research and analytics company known especially for its political polling, admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement. According to the original complaint filed in 2009, Gallup allegedly inflated estimates of labor hours required for market research contracts with the U.S. Mint and U.S. Passport Agency
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That’ll get Obama’s approval rating higher.
And that will pay for what, .014 seconds of the national debt clock?
Gallup is getting punished for showing Romney up by a point for a couple of days back in autumn.
This wouldn’t have anything to do with this, would it?:
Gallup Sued by DOJ Over Unfavorable Poll Numbers for Obama
(http://visiontoamerica.com/12050/gallup-sued-by-doj-over-unfavorable-poll-numbers-for-obama/)
That’s what you get for publishing poll results The Regime doesn’t like.
That is implausibly out of character for Gallup (and I have worked extensively with Gallup's people, so I would know - they are one of the few organizations where I almost automatically took their word on billing). Revenge for bad press is very much in character for Obama's people. Occam's razor tells me to accept the simplest explanation - and once again it's corruption in what used to be our government.
The banana republic tinpot goes after “betrayers”.
Valerie Jarrett (everytime I see her picture, I wait for her to peel off her mask and show her real alien reptile face underneath) did say that they were going to get revenge. This is what the United States of America has come to. They’re doing an excellent job of destroying-I mean transforming-it.
And that will pay for what, .014 seconds of the national debt clock?”
You surely don’t expect them to put any part of this money in the Treasury. I’m sure this will go right into the Justice Department’s slush fund. Walking around money for Holder and his minions.
Isn’t Gallop an obamabot?
Serves him right!
ping.
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