Congratulations, House Republicans!

Prosecutors troubled by extent of military fraud

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141116/us--military_corruption-4dee141317.html

By ERIC TUCKER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fabian Barrera found a way to make fast cash in the Texas National Guard, earning roughly $181,000 for claiming to have steered 119 potential recruits to join the military. But the bonuses were ill-gotten because the former captain never actually referred anyone.

Barrera's case, which ended last month with a prison sentence of at least three years, is part of what Justice Department lawyers describe as a recurring pattern of corruption that spans a broad cross section of the military.

In a period when the nation has spent freely to support wars on multiple fronts, prosecutors have found plentiful targets: defendants who bill for services they do not provide, those who steer lucrative contracts to select business partners and those who use bribes to game a vast military enterprise.

Despite numerous cases that have produced long prison sentences, the problems have continued abroad and at home with a frequency that law enforcement officials consider troubling.

FULL story at link.



FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell speaks in Washington. Fabian Barrera found a way to make fast cash in the Texas National Guard, earning $181,000 for claiming to have steered 119 potential recruits to join the military. But the bonuses were ill-gotten; the former captain never actually referred anyone. {201c}The schemes we see really run the gamut from relatively small bribes paid to somebody in Afghanistan to hundreds of millions of dollars{2019} worth of contracts being steered in the direction of a favored company who{2019}s paying bribes,{201d} Caldwell said in an interview. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Americans troubled by Obamacare fraud.

joint says:

Nope. Conservatives troubled by the fact that Obamacare is working, providing affordable medical care to millions of Americans, seems to be holding down the rete of increase in medical costs in general, not only for enrollees in Obamacare, and is off to a running start in Year 2, as people not previously enrolled rush to sign up. Conservatives are deeply troubled and unable to face the fact that they were totally wrong all along.

Dream on ....

Rush to sign up? Enrollment hasn't even started yet and no one knows what the premiums are going to be. There are still several parts of the ACA that have been delayed that have yet to kick in. At least 2 states have dropped their access to state exchanges and moved to the Federal exchange.

You seem to be making leaps of logic that do not exist yet.

So you like to be called "stupid"? Keep replying like that and you are going to love it.

Nice deflection.

Nothing to deflect. Jacks post was rhetoric.

I was speaking of your reply to post number 5,817,013 concerning military fraud. The Affordable Care Act has no connection to military fraud. Your reply was an odd deflection.

I see the fraud in the ACA is OK?

Still deflecting.

And your post is ****. As always. Insipid bullshit.

Democratic Underground is a progressive forum as far out of touch as Boob himself.

Baldimo sez:


I see you're keeping in touch just about as much as you usually do,
Baldimo--which is to say, not very well.

Actually enrollment started Saturday, the day before you posted that. And over 100,000 people signed up that first day. Nice try, no cigar.

Actually the only people happy with Obamacare are the ones who pay nothing.

Thats a lie.

You should know all about lies. If I remember right you believe them. And people who get things for free are happy. Happy enough to expect more Democratic handouts. But not happy enough to vote.

That's an old metaphor from a labor movement that once promoted beneficial cahanges in working conditions for all. Sadly, success in the achievement of most of its objectives during the previous century led to the loss of its guiding principles and its steady degeneration into a corrupt, self-serving and monopolistic parasite.

Union organizing efforts in the private sector are nearly always unsuccessful as workers repeatedly vote against compulsory ujnion membership. Indeed the overwhelming majority of union organizing efforts have come in government service in states and the Federal government under Democrat Administrations that simply give the unions monopolistic control of their emploiyees by administrative fiat.

Wisconsin has shown us that when these workers are given a free choice they leave the unions with remarkable speed. Bobsal is living in a delusional and long past era.