Being “shocked” about this reminds me of Casablanca.
When you have a government as large as ours, involved in every aspect of life, you will seep billions of dollars without a single person noticing.
Do we not have any accountants working for the Federal government?
But...the system is working EXACTLY how it was designed. It’s not the parasites who are mostly at fault. It is our Congress.
This grift is by no means unique to ATI Government Solutions, it is widespread in government contracting. Native Americans, and especially Eskimos, are first in line at Uncle Sugar’s feed trough.
I’ve seen instances in the DoD where, generally speaking, a certain percentage of each program must be awarded to minority set-aside contractors. Often these set-aside contractors were owned by a minority figure head whose only function was to qualify the contractor for these set asides. All too often these contractors were unqualified to perform the work. The contracting agency made the government contracting agency responsible for training the unqualifed to perform the work.
This is probably breaking news only to people who have never been anywhere near the construction industry.
I thought we knew this has been going on for a very long time? I simply took it as common knowledge when a minority is given a preference contract that they have no way of fulfilling. Nearly 50 years ago I worked for one of the subs who did work for an american indian principal who received a contract for work with the BIA and everybody big enough to die knew it.
I discovered this form of corruption years ago when I naively volunteered at nonprofits designed to help individuals/families in distress.
When the person-in-need calls, he/she is asked their name, address, phone number...then asked about the problem. After a heartrending explanation the caller is given the phone number of a different nonprofit, and told that’s who can help them. The next place does the same thing, passing the caller on to another nonprofit. This merry-go-round goes on and on, and the suffering person is NEVER given any help, but the nonprofits have added names and info to their list of individuals that they “helped”. The sum of these people then goes to the nonprofits’ funding sources: “We helped X amount of individuals last year. We must have more money to continue our work.”
I know that if you want to do business w/for Miami Dade County you’d better be a minority owned company or you aren’t sniffing anything. I think it was 20% higher bids they were allowed at some point.
Exactly. The last CEO of my Govt contracting firm sold the company and walked off with a couple hundred million dollars. Not one dime to all the past employees that help grow the company. F these parasites.
Can you say Clinton Foundation?
I think the only audit they ever had, they failed. Luckily for them, the Obama IRS allowed them to “amend” their tax filings and keep the money they’ve have and are continuing to skim for all their “charitable” activities . . .
I used to have the opposite problem. I was at a small, very high-tech speciality free-space optics firm. We were bidding and winning DOD research contracts, but we had to prove why we could not hire any minorities. There were no minorities with anywhere near the specialty skills we required and proving that was tough. But we finally got the needed exemption. What a PITA that was.
This is throughout the gummit and especially the Pentagon.
Back in the ‘90’s, I was part of a team from a large computer company that responded to an RFQ from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in ABQ NM. We were told that we could not submit a bid unless it was submitted through an organization owned by an Indian company. We found one to continue the bidding process. His fee added 10% to our proposal. Should we have gotten the award (which we didn’t) he would have pocketed the 10% as his cost of doing business with us.
Fresh out of college in the early 90s, I did “economic development” and was tasked with doing worksite interviews on a small town water project for which we were administering the federal /state grants. Had to interview the owner of the “woman/minority” company that was doing the work.
Her late-twenties ?husband was onsite so I talked with him. He told me that she solely owned the company. She wasn’t ever onsite but I could certainly give her a call but could I wait until the kids got up from their naps as this was about the time she put them down. This was their first big job since he split from his mom’s company but they were “plenty experienced because they were using a bunch of his dad’s crew and he had done the bid.”
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