[From April 4, 2014]State Department Misplaced $6B Under Hillary Clinton [don't let people forget]

The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.

The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.

The alert, originally sent on March 20 and just released this week, warns that the missing contracting funds “could expose the department to substantial financial losses.”

The report centered on State Department contracts worth “more than $6 billion in which contract files were incomplete or could not be located at all,” according to the alert.

“The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” the alert states.

The situation “creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file,” the report concluded.

The State Department’s inability to properly file its paperwork is causing most of the losses, according to the report.

The IG “found repeated examples of poor contract file administration” over the years, the report said.

Contracts related to the U.S. war in Iraq, for instance, could not be produced in 33 out of 115 instances, according to the report.

“A recent OIG audit of the closeout process for contracts supporting the U.S. Mission in Iraq revealed that contracting officials were unable to provide 33 of 115 contract files requested in accordance with the audit sampling plan,” the report states.

The value of the 33 “missing files” totaled $2.1 billion, according to the report.

Additionally, 48 of the 82 contract files that were produced “did not contain all of the documentation required by” internal regulations, according to the report.

The 48 “incomplete files” were worth another $2.1 billion, according to the report.

A further audit of the department’s Bureau of African Affairs found that administrators “were unable to provide complete contract administration files for any of the eight contracts that were reviewed.”

The investigation also found instances in which a company owned by the spouse of a contractor employee was not properly documented.

“In the case of work undertaken by OIG’s Office of Investigations, one investigation revealed that a contract file did not contain documentation reflecting that modifications and task orders were awarded to the company owned by the spouse of a contractor employee performing as a Contract Specialist for the contract,” the report states.

The report outlines several other instances in which contracts worth great values were mishandled.

“In a number of recent OIG inspections, OIG identified contract file management deficiencies. For example, COR files for a $2.5 million contract lacked status reports and a tally of the funds expended and remaining on the contract,” the report states.

The State Department appeared to agree with the IG’s recommendations in a March 28 response and said that it intends to ensure that contracts are completed properly.

Basically, they wrote a number of contracts (to various companies and organizations) to provide “services or equipment”. If you go and ask for the folders on the contracts to see what it is, or how the thing was completed, or if deadlines were met....these folders meet marginal requirements or less.

It’s like a contract to buy sixty new chairs for a division. You do an audit and find that a contract existed in 2010 for these chairs. So you pull the folder from the financial adviser of the State Department unit, and there’s the contract for the chairs....which lists an expected date and delivery point. But, there’s nothing to say that the chairs were actually delivered. So you look for a receipt, and there is none. Then you look for the payment, and that will exist, but you ask how can you pay if there is no noted paperwork on delivery. So then you waste an hour walking around to ask people and they eventually show you sixty chairs existing that came in that period. The problem is poor financial management....up and down the chain. I worked in a DoD unit where we did every single step, on every single item....even it was a $10 cable....there was a paper-work trail to show the order, the receipt, and the payment. Some would say it’s a waste of time but how can you be accountable unless you do this?

My guess is that most of this is hardware or computer related and they did receive the equipment. But where this was services rendered in some foreign country? I would question just about every angle of that if there is no paper trail.

There needs to be a special audit team put onto the State Department, and people dragged in for demotion if they’ve failed badly on accountability.

Could this be where some of the 6 billion went?

Secy Hillary's aide at the State Dept, Cheryl Mills, a govt employee, found time to run the BlackIvy Group, a consulting firm and property developer in Sub-Saharan Africa.

US govt employee, Cheryl Mills group, BlackIvy, is developing a privately-financed dry port that will be located 56 km outside of the Port of Dar es Salaam, and will use shuttle trains to take transit and upcountry cargo to and from the Port,” BlackIvy spokeswoman Erin Pelton confirmed to Breitbart News. “BlackIvy is focused on in-land logistics, not operating seaports,” Pelton added, denying that BlackIvy is running into opposition from the Tanzania Ports Authority.

So how did BlackIvy, a brand new firm with no discernible track record of building ports, manage to become an overnight player in the East African energy market?

It turns out Clinton’s former aides had some help from a company called Symbion Power, which was created to profit off rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan after the U.S. invasions. Symbion Power happens to be a very good friend of Hillary Clinton’s.

BACKSTORY Hillary's pal, Sid Blumenthal was the conniving Clintons' bagman---a $325,000 employee of the Clinton Foundation, he had numerous paid side interests----promoting any number of foreign deals and schemes in which he had a financial interest.....many of which were predicated on the toppling of Libya's Khadaffi.

Blumenthal was ambidextrous---chronically emailing Hillary Libya foreign policy messages w/ one hand....his other hand firmly in the State Dept cookie jar.

In one confidential e-mail to Clinton, Blumenthal was clearly colluding w/ onetime Amb Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame's hubby) to help himself to the tax dollars in the State Dept cookie jar.

GAME ON Amb Wilson pumped himself up as a 'director' of Symbion Power---an outfit seeking millions of dollars in contracts from an obscure government agency chaired by Hillary....the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC)

In September 2010, Hillary's MCC awarded Symbion $47 million tax dollars for (cough) 'power projects in Tanzania.'

EVER WONDER how much of the $47 million tax dollars got to Tanzania....after the players divvied it up among Blumenthal, Wilson, the Clintons, Obama?

<><> Did Mill’s BlackIvy Group donate to The Clinton Foundation? <><> Did the Clinton Foundation partner w/ her BlackIvy Group in some phony sub-Sahara scam “for the children?” <><> Did Hillary’s State Dept grant Mill’s Group tax monies? <><>Did any of the Sub-Sahara countries listed above donate to the Clinton Foundation?

NOTE Millenium is also the source of the 100 million tax dollars Michele gave to Morocco "to teach Muslim girls" ===========================================

FREEPER ACTION PROJECT--DO THIS NOW: demand the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) books be opened. We demand to know the financial details and the scope and dimension of individuals connected to these outrageous State Dept giveaways.........govt parasites profiting at taxayers' expense.

CONTACT CONGRESS HERE---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

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REFERENCE--- Hillary Clinton visited Tanzania in June 2011. Where did she go to speak? The Symbion Power Plant in Dar Es Salaam, where she spoke in front of Symbion and General Electric (GE) logos. Soon after the speech, Clinton intervened in a business deal between Symbion and GE to help Symbion’s interests in Tanzania. An attendee quietly captured Clinton on video after her speech chatting up business executives, including one from General Electric. “Hi, Chris. Nice to see you. Thanks for GE’s contributions (to the foundation). I really appreciate it. You’ll have to tell Jeff Immelt — or, I’ll call him to tell him how much I appreciate it,” Clinton said to the General Electric official, referring to the GE CEO. http://littlesis.org/org/158171/BlackIvy_Group

$6 Bil Vanishes From State Dept. Under Hillary Clinton

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/04/6-bil-vanishes-from-state-dept-under-hillary-clinton/

Among the examples listed in the memo is a recent investigation of the closeout process for contracts involving the U.S. mission in Iraq. Investigators could not locate 33 of the 115 contract files totaling approximately $2.1 billion.

Even of the files they found, more than half contained insufficient documents required by federal law. In one billion-dollar deal involving the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in Afghanistan, the actual contract was determined to be “incomplete.”

In one alarming case a contract file conveniently omitted that a $52 million deal was awarded to a company owned by the spouse of another State Department contractor employee performing as a specialist.

In other cited cases a contracting officer actually falsified government technical review information in a $100 million deal and a contracting officer’s representative allowed nearly $800,000 to be paid on a deal with no official documents to support the payment. It’s the free-flow of public funds under extremely suspicious circumstances.

Office of the Inspector General Report from March 2014

Semi Annual report [State dept] to congress Oct 1, 2013 - March 31,2014
https://oig.state.gov/system/files/228512.pdf

Independent Auditor’s Report on the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, U.S. Section, 2013 and 2012 Financial Statements

The auditor found certain reportable deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting. Specifically, the auditor found significant deficiencies in the internal control over information technology and property and equipment.

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Keystone XL Pipeline Project Compliance Follow-up Review: The Department of State’s Choice of Environmental Resources Management, Inc. To Assist in Preparing the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

OIG made four recommendations intended to improve the documentation and public disclosure of the contractor selection process and conflict-of-interest review process. The Department concurred with all four:

-Enhance Department guidance to more fully articulate its selection and conflict of interest review processes.

-Explain in greater detail the definition of organizational conflict of interest relied upon by the Department.

-Specify in Department guidance the documentation required in the contractor-selection and conflict-of-interest processes, and establish standard operating procedures to capture and retain this information.

-Enhance Department guidance to integrate a process for public disclosure of appropriate information.

So how did BlackIvy, a brand new firm with no discernible track record of building ports, manage to become an overnight player in the East African energy market?
It turns out Clinton’s former aides had some help from a company called Symbion Power, which was created to profit off rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan after the U.S. invasions. Symbion Power happens to be a very good friend of Hillary Clinton’s.
BACKSTORY Hillary's pal, Sid Blumenthal was the conniving Clintons' bagman---a $325,000 employee of the Clinton Foundation, he had numerous paid side interests----promoting any number of foreign deals and schemes in which he had a financial interest.....many of which were predicated on the toppling of Libya's Khadaffi.
EVER WONDER how much of the $47 million tax dollars got to Tanzania....after the players divvied it up among Blumenthal, Wilson, the Clintons, Obama?
<><> Did Mill’s BlackIvy Group donate to The Clinton Foundation? <><>

Did the Clinton Foundation partner w/ her BlackIvy Group in some phony sub-Sahara scam “for the children?”

(Were Hillary's Wall Street donors in on the financial gains?)

Did Hillary’s State Dept grant Mill’s Group tax monies? <><>Did any of the Sub-Sahara countries listed above donate to the Clinton Foundation?

If we had the old FBI - or a honorable CIA we would have the answers - and those answers would be shared with the American people NOT traded off for a better 'position'...

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