Posted on 10/22/2019 5:47:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Eyeing stricter controls in the federal government’s minority contracting program, a House oversight panel on Tuesday is expected to address the findings of a Times investigation that showed that companies received more than $300 million in taxpayer-funded contracts based on unverified claims that their owners were Native American.
The committee oversees the U.S. Small Business Administration, which certifies federal contractors as minority-owned. Its subcommittee on investigations will conduct the hearing.
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Gray Beaver should be concerned.
I thought this was one of yours
How about we do away with all of this BS?
Agreed. There should never have been racist preferences in the first place.
Oversight? What a joke. Every Minority Program everywhere is full of fraud in the form of regular companies who acquire Minority partners to fulfill the requirements for status to get contracts. Minority partners can just be placeholders, like Hunter Biden.
When I worked for SBA (40 years ago) these were known as “Meebee-Weebees” and even then that scam was pervasive.
Yep, there is even a whole new industry of smaller 3rd party minority “agent” services who bigger companies hire to bid for them. The big companies still get the contract and work but it is through one of these “minority” proxy agencies for the bid. All they do is claim the minority agency is the general contractor who hires the bigger company as their subcontractor.
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