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  • Two people charged with defrauding minority set-aside program in Chicago

    03/21/2018 8:26:25 AM PDT · by rktman · 12 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 3/21/2018 | Thomas Lifson
    When governments play favorites on the basis of race in awarding contracts, the real scandal isn't people who illegally pretend to be of the favored race or gender or ethnicity, but the discrimination practiced by the government. That is my takeaway from this story by Samantha Bonkamp of the Chicago Tribune. The president and manager of a car wash that was under contract to wash city vehicles have been charged with defrauding Chicago of more than $900,000 by allegedly using suppliers that didn't comply with the minority business requirements. The two allegedly devised a scheme to inflate prices and make...