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Early this decade, Pentagon auditors found that a quarter of the defense contractors they examined were trying to get the federal government to pick up some of their lobbying costs — a violation of federal law that could cost taxpayers millions of dollars if the practice turned out to be widespread.
But there the inquiry stopped.
The Defense Department’s inspector general didn’t do any follow-up investigations to determine whether improper reimbursement requests had come from more companies beyond the six the initial audit had found, spokeswoman Bridget Serchak said. And the Pentagon largely kept the audit quiet — stamping it “for official use only” and releasing only a bare-bones summary that didn’t name any of the offending contractors.
...The six offending firms were CACI, Progeny Systems, SpaceDev, Surface Optics, Torrey Pines Logic and Trex Enterprises.
Read more: Illegal lobbying practice got scant Pentagon attention
I'm thinking this should become a priority.
But there the inquiry stopped.
The Defense Department’s inspector general didn’t do any follow-up investigations to determine whether improper reimbursement requests had come from more companies beyond the six the initial audit had found, spokeswoman Bridget Serchak said. And the Pentagon largely kept the audit quiet — stamping it “for official use only” and releasing only a bare-bones summary that didn’t name any of the offending contractors.
...The six offending firms were CACI, Progeny Systems, SpaceDev, Surface Optics, Torrey Pines Logic and Trex Enterprises.
Read more: Illegal lobbying practice got scant Pentagon attention
I'm thinking this should become a priority.
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