They didn’t do anything to check out these companies? or did they purposely look for bad apples to give contracts to?
Great question! Getting the feeling the goal was to defraud Americans by choosing the absolute worst possible contractors.
At this point, if we were in France, Germany, South Korea or
Spain....there’d be a prosecution team on the case, and everyone associated with this guy....politically....would have to resign or face some serious consequences.
Fortunately, we don’t live in an accountable state, and no journalism organization in the United States is capable of true investigative journalism anymore....with the exception of the Cartoon Channel and the History Channel.
I bet the only subset of available companies they considered was comprised of those who had been politically active and politically friendly. That pretty much eliminates a merit/competence based award.
They undoubtedly purposely looked for crooked companies who would kick some back.