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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's family ripped off SBA program intended for minorities.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-na-pol-mccarthy-contracts-20181014-story.html. . .
Vortex Construction, whose principal owner is William Wages, the brother of (Kevin) McCarthys wife, Judy, received a total of $7.6 million in no-bid and other prime federal contracts since 2000, The Times found.
The Bakersfield company is co-owned by McCarthys mother-in-law and employs his father-in-law and sister-in-law, Wages said. McCarthys wife was a partner in Vortex in the early 1990s.
Vortex faced no competitive bids for most of the contracts because the Small Business Administration accepted Wages claim in 1998 that he is a Cherokee Indian. Under the SBA program, his company became eligible for federal contracts set aside for economically and socially disadvantaged members of minority groups, a boon to its business.
Wages says he is one-eighth Cherokee. An examination of government and tribal records by The Times and a leading Cherokee genealogist casts doubt on that claim, however. He is a member of a group called the Northern Cherokee Nation, which has no federal or state recognition as a legitimate tribe. It is considered a fraud by leaders of tribes that have federal recognition.
Vortex was awarded more than $4 million in minority set-aside contracts for projects at China Lake. (Kevin) McCarthy has been a staunch advocate in Congress for funding and staffing for China Lake, the Navys largest property at more than 1.1 million acres, and spearheaded successful efforts to expand its borders.
McCarthy is no ordinary member of Congress, but one of the most powerful elected officials in California and on the national stage. The contracts obtained by Wages company have prompted questions about whether he improperly benefited from being McCarthys brother-in-law.
The Bakersfield company is co-owned by McCarthys mother-in-law and employs his father-in-law and sister-in-law, Wages said. McCarthys wife was a partner in Vortex in the early 1990s.
Vortex faced no competitive bids for most of the contracts because the Small Business Administration accepted Wages claim in 1998 that he is a Cherokee Indian. Under the SBA program, his company became eligible for federal contracts set aside for economically and socially disadvantaged members of minority groups, a boon to its business.
Wages says he is one-eighth Cherokee. An examination of government and tribal records by The Times and a leading Cherokee genealogist casts doubt on that claim, however. He is a member of a group called the Northern Cherokee Nation, which has no federal or state recognition as a legitimate tribe. It is considered a fraud by leaders of tribes that have federal recognition.
Vortex was awarded more than $4 million in minority set-aside contracts for projects at China Lake. (Kevin) McCarthy has been a staunch advocate in Congress for funding and staffing for China Lake, the Navys largest property at more than 1.1 million acres, and spearheaded successful efforts to expand its borders.
McCarthy is no ordinary member of Congress, but one of the most powerful elected officials in California and on the national stage. The contracts obtained by Wages company have prompted questions about whether he improperly benefited from being McCarthys brother-in-law.
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GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's family ripped off SBA program intended for minorities. (Original Post)
CousinIT
Oct 2018
OP
There's so much corruption that I don't expect anything to be done about this.
Garrett78
Oct 2018
#7
Botany
(70,516 posts)1. Lock him up
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)2. "My Kevin" associated with grifters! Say it ain't so!
Fake Cherokee People/Fake Cherokee Tribe/So full of grifters/So proud to lie.
Damn, that old Mark Lindsay/Paul Revere and the Raiders(?) song just sprung up in my mind grapes!
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)9. and you just had to start that earworm
vlyons
(10,252 posts)3. another cxorrupt Republican. I'm shocked, just shacked!
*snark*
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)4. Shall we call him Geronimo or Cochise?
irisblue
(32,980 posts)8. Neither. They were honorable warriors . from another thread
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2178799
From Yellerpup
"Call him "Spouting Bull" instead.
No need to insult the memory of Sitting Bull.
"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." Sitting Bull"
And it's true as well.
From Yellerpup
"Call him "Spouting Bull" instead.
No need to insult the memory of Sitting Bull.
"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children." Sitting Bull"
And it's true as well.
dalton99a
(81,514 posts)5. Kick
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)6. REALLY
The contracts obtained by Wages company have prompted questions about whether he improperly benefited from being McCarthys brother-in-law.
If those contracts were a no bid contract then McCarty's brother-in law, father in law, and mother in law ALL benefitted by getting these contracts pushed through without anyone else having the opportunity to enter a bid. I'd say they benefitted alright.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)7. There's so much corruption that I don't expect anything to be done about this.
It's a sad, sad state of affairs.
KentuckyWoman
(6,685 posts)10. Doesn't matter
All they had to do is put 51% ownership in a woman's name and they are still a "disadvantaged minority".
Happens all day, every day. Every once in awhile one of these guys ends up in a divorce and the wife manages to take the business because on paper he made it hers. I smile on those days.
Capperdan
(492 posts)11. Maybe he should take a DNA test
Elizabeth Warren could do that too.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)12. K&R
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)13. k&r