[vbpg]427[/vbpg] That's right, folks, this picture represents $998,798 worth of washers, bought by the U.S. Defense Department and paid for with U.S. tax dollars. Charlene Corley, who along with her sister provided numerous products to the Pentagon from her South Carolina hardware store, confessed to sending the Pentagon a bill for $998,798 for payment for two 19-cent washers. Now Corley is in a lot of trouble for this, and says her sister killed herself because of all the pressure of bilking taxpayers out of $20.5 million, overbilling the Pentagon for a variety of items. She's even blaming her dead sister for the crime. Now she faces 20 years in jail, and the government plans to force her to pay back $7 million of that money. -article from wired
I have a friend with at 10,000 dollar ashtray thanks to the military. :rofl (Relax, it is a broken part and was broke before he brought it back).
I'd say the person who sent it. The sender knew what they were doing. It's possible the payer was incompetent.
Apparently those two sisters found the loophole that stuff going to the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq was paid immediately, rather than going through regular channels (which are inept enough, anyway). So they made sure the stuff they sold was "priority," and that meant even less oversight than normal.
No Rene, it isn't. This isn't the first time either. Two other examples were the $640 toilet seat, and the $435 dollar claw hammer. Source
So, let me get this straight....these 2 bilked the all knowing Pentagon outta $20mil, the sister kills herself & takes most of the blame. The other sister has to do 20 years & repay 7 million. So the end result would be she'll get out of jail due to prison overcrowding in a couple of years & have $13 million to retire on......not a bad deal, huh!!! I'd probably do the full 20 years for that kinda money.
I have a strong suspicion the dead sister might not be so "dead". Maybe in a beach somewhere drinking some tropical fruity drink with an umbrella!!!! Raf
Ridiculous......reminds me of that movie DAVE.... Guy says....if i ran my business like this..i would be out of business
