Posted on 06/17/2011 7:48:30 PM PDT by One Name
When the economy slowed down and construction jobs started drying up, Warren K. Parker had an idea for getting more business.
Pretend to be a wounded war hero, create a company called Silver Star Construction and bid on jobs reserved for companies owned by true service-disabled veterans, narrowing his pool of competing bidders. For a while, the plan worked, nabbing Parker multiple million-dollar construction contracts — including three at Fort Leavenworth.
That’s how U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom described Parker’s scheme on Thursday, when he announced that Parker and three others had been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal program that uses stimulus money to help companies owned by wounded veterans.
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“jobs reserved for companies owned by true service-disabled veterans”
These kinds of laws, laws that make engineering companies whose main advertisement is “MINORITY OWNED”, sicken me.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I’m sure the Supreme Jerks will rule in his favor.
I thought the Supreme Court said it was ok to fake your military history? Freedom of expression, first amendment and all that.
I own a service disabled small business, hasn’t done me a damn bit of good.
How did he get his 8(a) disadvantage SDVO status? As a contractor for an 8(a) company, there has to be more to the story. Someone on the government side was playing ball.
Or pretending to do their job and got burned. Don’t know anymore than what I read.
You have to find a sole source stream for the 8(a) work and get in on some equipment sales for non 8(a) revenue. It is a cat and mouse game.
it was a lower circuit court, not the supremes, right??
It is indeed another form of affirmative action; one no one wants to disagree with for fear of being accused of anti-patriotism.
But, like any government program that attempts to “level the playing field” for some group, fraud and abuse seem rampant.
Not sure, that’s why I asked.
I’m sure that’s true. These laws really only exist to favor democrat constituencies. I’m sure that particular law is quite rare.
That’s nothing. You oughta see some of the guys I sit next to in the vet bars.
One guy claimed he was a Marine, and when I asked his MOS, he told me it was Top Secret. And it was Top Secret because if it got out, assassins would kill him.
I know what you mean, I have a “Navy Seal” living down the street. When I told him I was an ex navy seal myself (no I am not, just testing him), his story suddenly changed, said he worked with them. LOL!
I understand being insecure about your accomplishments in life and embellishing your role in real events but to completely fabricate an alter ego in this day and age is a doomed endeavour I would think.
Pathological, they are. This outfit had a greed motive that adds a dimension to the equation.
(Hint: He might not want want me.)
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What a dirty rat.
>>> I thought the Supreme Court said it was ok to fake your military history? Freedom of expression, first amendment and all that.
That’s about right. George Castanza can try to get laid by boasting he is an architect or a green beret. He however cannot build a skyscraper likely to collapse and kill 10,000, or steal millions of tax dollars by defrauding a government veteran’s preference program. Seems a reasonable balance.
Once he started with the BS I guess he just kept digging the hole.
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