A pair of sisters from Lexington, SC have just been endited for defrauding the U.S. Government of over 20 MILLION dollars in fraudulent shipping costs by overcharging for the small items their company supplied to the troops in Iraq. Taking advantage of the "automatic online approval" that government supply shipments receive if they're going to a warzone from authorized government contractors (so supplies get to our troops as fast as they can, with the least amount of red tape), they charged $998,000 (yes, that's nine-hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars) for sending an envelope with 2 steel washers in it to a base in western Iraq and $455,009 to ship three machine screws that cost $1.31 to manufacture.
To add insult to injury, the sisters spent the majority of the embezzled funds on luxury items (Bentleys, a yacht, property in the Carribbean), so even if the FBI reposesses the property, they still have to auction it off to recoup the stolen funds.
One of the sisters (Darlene Corley) committed suicide by shooting herself after learning that she and her sister were to be sent to jail when federal investigators uncovered their crimes. I wonder if that bullet cost her less than the washers and machine screws.
Yet again...the picture below proves true. Taken somewhere in western Iraq. How a propos.
4 comments:
damn. That's all I got.
i am speechless.
Wow...they belong in the same league as your doctor...
Hmm...I guess you're not quite up to mountain biking. Okay, well let me know if there is anything we can do! At least you have the red chair to comfort you!
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