disrupter
09-29-2007, 02:30 AM
A contractor in Iraq, Custer Battles, in one case we actually know of billed the US taxpayers for 10,000,000 for about 3,000,000 worth of construction accomplished. Or about 30 cents on the dollar.
Jeremy Scahill, Investigative Journalist: I sat in a defense authorization hearing this past May and watched as representative after representative asked officials from the military and the federal government how many contractors do we have? What are they doing? How much are they being paid? What nations are they drawn from? The answers were I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's ridiculous I have representatives calling me asking me for government documents. It should be the other way around.
The Senators also heard from whistleblowers about contractor fraud. Robert Isakson, a former FBI investigator of white collar crime, went to Iraq with his disaster recovery firm. He won a subcontract with an American company called Custer Battles.
Robert Isakson: Former Contractor in Iraq: They asked me three times to assist in preparing fake invoices and leases that they could then submit to the government. The first time I told them no. The second time I told them hell no. The third time, after telling them no, I told them they were all going to prison. As a result of my continued refusals to cooperate in their fraud they pointed machine guns at us and seized our identifications.
Later I learned that this company had handed in $10 million in fake invoices for approximately $3 million dollars of work.
BILL MOYERS: Isakson sued Custer Battles for fraud and to have that $10 million restored to the United States. He won in civil court.
But a federal judge overturned the decision, ruling that the, now defunct, Coalition Provisional Authority, which hired the firm was not part of the U.S. government — so Isakson couldn't sue them under U.S. law. He's still fighting it.http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09282007/transcript5.html
So figure for every ten billion spent we 3 billion in results.
Now the president wants to add 50 billion to the original 150 billion requested for the iraq war this year.
So out of 200 billion we should expect about 66 billion in results & 134 billion in complete naked theft.
It is all about lack of accountability.
Is this why we are handing trillions in debt to American children & the unborn,
so criminals can rip off the US treasury.
Mr. Isakson took them to court & sued them not for himself but on your behalf on behalf of taxpayers.
He won in court, but a subsequent judge ruled against him.
So these crooks neither went to prison nor even had to pay stolen money back.
Part of the problem is Bush POLITICAL Appointee, Krongard, who has been charged by at least 6 of the people in the office with interfering with investigations. He colluded to overlook the employment of slaves to build the monsterous new US embassy in Baghdad.
These are not patriots, these are criminals.
nothing but criminals.
Jeremy Scahill, Investigative Journalist: I sat in a defense authorization hearing this past May and watched as representative after representative asked officials from the military and the federal government how many contractors do we have? What are they doing? How much are they being paid? What nations are they drawn from? The answers were I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's ridiculous I have representatives calling me asking me for government documents. It should be the other way around.
The Senators also heard from whistleblowers about contractor fraud. Robert Isakson, a former FBI investigator of white collar crime, went to Iraq with his disaster recovery firm. He won a subcontract with an American company called Custer Battles.
Robert Isakson: Former Contractor in Iraq: They asked me three times to assist in preparing fake invoices and leases that they could then submit to the government. The first time I told them no. The second time I told them hell no. The third time, after telling them no, I told them they were all going to prison. As a result of my continued refusals to cooperate in their fraud they pointed machine guns at us and seized our identifications.
Later I learned that this company had handed in $10 million in fake invoices for approximately $3 million dollars of work.
BILL MOYERS: Isakson sued Custer Battles for fraud and to have that $10 million restored to the United States. He won in civil court.
But a federal judge overturned the decision, ruling that the, now defunct, Coalition Provisional Authority, which hired the firm was not part of the U.S. government — so Isakson couldn't sue them under U.S. law. He's still fighting it.http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09282007/transcript5.html
So figure for every ten billion spent we 3 billion in results.
Now the president wants to add 50 billion to the original 150 billion requested for the iraq war this year.
So out of 200 billion we should expect about 66 billion in results & 134 billion in complete naked theft.
It is all about lack of accountability.
Is this why we are handing trillions in debt to American children & the unborn,
so criminals can rip off the US treasury.
Mr. Isakson took them to court & sued them not for himself but on your behalf on behalf of taxpayers.
He won in court, but a subsequent judge ruled against him.
So these crooks neither went to prison nor even had to pay stolen money back.
Part of the problem is Bush POLITICAL Appointee, Krongard, who has been charged by at least 6 of the people in the office with interfering with investigations. He colluded to overlook the employment of slaves to build the monsterous new US embassy in Baghdad.
These are not patriots, these are criminals.
nothing but criminals.