Reply #5: In a democracy, criminality is never rewarded. [View All]

[Octafish]

And yet...

Defense Dept. Gave $431 Billion to Contractors After They were Convicted of Fraud

Noel Brinkerhoff
AllGov.com Saturday, October 22, 2011

In the nation’s capital, crime does pay for defense contractors.

The Department of Defense has admitted that it has rewarded hundreds of companies convicted of fraud with new deals that totaled more than $1.1 trillion.

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who requested the information from the Pentagon, said, “The ugly truth is that virtually all of the major defense contractors in this country for years have been engaged in systemic fraudulent behavior, while receiving hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.”

Examples include Lockheed Martin, which in 2008 paid $10.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the government by submitting false invoices related to the Titan IV space launch vehicle program. The following year Lockheed pulled in $30.2 billion from the Defense Department.

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If it weren't for Bernie Sanders shining a light on these traitors, I'd write it is most disheartening to hope things change and they never do.