Posted on 12/06/2025 5:39:12 AM PST by CFW
The Small Business Administration on Friday ordered all companies that get preference for government contracts due to their status as “socially disadvantaged” minorities to provide detailed financial information to show they are not defrauding the program, The Daily Wire has learned.
The change represents a move to reevaluate a decades-old program that Washington insiders have long recognized as openly corrupt. The 8(a) program is one of the largest and oldest DEI initiatives in the country, affecting contracts at almost all federal agencies.
SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler said there is mounting evidence that minority contracts had become “a pass-through vehicle for rampant abuse and fraud,” especially after the Biden administration raised the target for contracts that are “set aside” for minorities from 5% to 15% of all contracting dollars.
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Undercover journalist James O’Keefe caught employees from one such firm boasting that they did exactly that. O’Keefe Media Group published a video exposing ATI Government Solutions, an 8(a) firm based on Native American ownership that is run by whites. Anish Abraham, senior director at ATI Government Solutions, acknowledged that his company was a “pass-through” that got a $100 million contract, kept $65 million, and paid another firm $35 million to do the work.
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You mean like the small farm in the wife’s name that the husband does all the farming and the wife has a job in town? Not that I’ve ever seen anything like that in action, of course.
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Woman-owned meets the criteria?
I know of one that has phosphoroused to glowing pro proportion in 12 years of the check your zip code srimination.
Color code would be more applicable
I voted for this
The whole thing is a fraud. Connected “minority-owned” firms are often simply contracting agencies for employees the real hiring entity could have hired directly—except they have to show that x% of contractors were MO. Jacks up the price of everything, enriches firms that don’t add actual value, and takes away from equal hiring opportunity across the board.
Undercover journalist James O’Keefe caught one firm boasting about DEI fraud:
<><>a video exposed shady “ATI Government Solutions,”
<><>the 8(a) firm falsely based on “Native American” ownership is deceptively run by whites.
<><>Anish Abraham, ATI senior director, acknowledged the company was a fraudulent “pass-through”
<><>they got a $100M contract, kept $65M, and paid another firm $35M to do the work.
Yes, woman owned is a fairly standard criterion, along with race and sexual orientation. Got to be inclusive, you know. And at the same time provide loopholes to keep the SEWP’s happy.
There are other unintended consequences such as legitimately minority owned and operated companies that learn the system but rather than moving up and out remain within the system for decades to the exclusion of legitimate new entrants.
I know from personal experience that this fraud has been going on for decades.
Low hanging fruit.
They should call it “white men need not apply.”
Corrupt stupid thumb-on-the-scales programs create favoritism and eventually corrupt decent people. It’s time to end liberal elite insanity. Clean out all of it.
Woman-owned meets the criteria?
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The advantages of women owned business needs to be changed. More women now have college degrees than men. They have the advantage. It would be sexist to further prop them up.
Interesting article...
Courts have held that race-based programs must also have a “logical end point.”
I think NOW would be a good time.
Low hanging fruit?
We probably should have supported Jeb Bush. He would have gotten rid of all this epic historic government waste, fraud and abuse by now, right glorgau?
Federal veteran hiring preferences (intake by law) have resulted in pretextual firings of perceived excesses of veterans in federal departments (that is, subsequent post-hire brooming of unsuspecting preference-hire veterans for made-up reasons by activist/DEI/woke managers in corrupt contravention of the preference law for hiring veterans).
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