Wikileaks releases audiotapes allegedly showing fraud in Obama and Bush administrations

[Demeter]

Source: The Telegraph (UK)


Tapes reportedly provide evidence that a programme intended to encourage the hiring of disabled people was mired in corruption...appointees of the Bush and Obama administrations corruptly misappropriated funds intended to encourage the hiring of disabled people.

The tapes are intended to provide evidence that billions of dollars meant for disabled people went instead to defence contractors and other major corporations without large proportions of disabled employees.

The accusations centre on a government programme called AbilityOne, which awards about $3 billion annually in government contracts. Most of that money is distributed by SourceAmerica, a non-profit.

It is intended for companies in which at least 75 per cent of work is performed by blind or otherwise disabled people, as a tool to get more such people into the workforce.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/11998922/Wikileaks-releases-audiotapes-allegedly-showing-fraud-in-Obama-and-Bush-administrations.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. dated 3:30PM GMT 16 Nov 2015, so not in the LBN window (nt)

[lovuian]

2. Pretty sad

pretty sad

[TheBlackAdder]

3. The stench probably entered in with GWB, just like the perversions of USAid. Never addressed. nt

[chapdrum]

6. What "stench"? (ask mainstream Dem's)

I recall Bill Clinton arriving in Haiti, post-quake, right alongside W - both of whom were ostensibly there to help (or "help" - don't know how it ultimately played out).

To me, the fact that B.C. would consent to be seen with W speaks quite clearly for itself.

Which is by way of saying that this story is not surprising.

[Kelvin Mace]

12. I can never understand how anyone can excuse that

They also excuse HRC and Kissinger.

[Sunlei]

4. Our Congress lets them get away with Fraud. Congress does nothing!

What does it take to get the members of Congress to wake up and smell the Federal Govs BS, collusion and criminal activity? The time for a Congressional Investigation is long past due.

Here's straight out fraud of millions, was turned over to our government. They did almost nothing. Yes, Salazar 'resigned' but so what, our Federal dollars were 'stolen' and the fraudsters get away with the loot.

Wild Horses Sold to Kill Buyer by BLM Contractor

by Debbie Coffey PPJ Investigative Reporter ~ Copyright 2013 All Rights Reserved
Director of Wild Horse Affairs ~ Wild Horse Freedom Federation


While the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been trying to convince the public that the BLM does not sell wild horses to slaughter, Wild Horse Freedom Federation has obtained proof that a BLM Long Term Holding contractor sold wild horses directly to kill buyer Joe Simon, who is well known for sending horses to slaughter, and who owns JS Ranch (“Farms”) in Perkins, Oklahoma.

Reeves, Lyle Anderson and Spur Livestock have sold horses directly to slaughter buyers more than once. (However, keep in mind that BLM freezemarks can be noted as “NO BRAND” and a new brand may be added and recognized as the ONLY brand, so the public has no absolute proof that these horses were NOT wild horses, either.)

In reviewing other South Dakota Brand Board records of Spur Livestock, Jim Reeves and Lyle Anderson, horses sold included:

12/4/08 – 48 “No brand” horses were sold by Jim Reeves, and 2 “No Brand” horses by other Reeves family members, to Rusty Williams in George West, Texas. (not a known kill buyer)

2/25/09 – 31 branded horses belonging to Jim Reeves and other Reeves family members were sold directly to slaughterhouse Canadian Premium Meats, Lacombe, AB, Canada.

11/18/09 – 9 “no brand” horses and 3 horses Jim got only 6 days before (on 11/12/09) from Jess Starr of Dupree, SD, were sold to kill buyer (Randy) Musick of Mitchell, SD.

11/18/09 – Jim Reeves sent 19 horses, including horses owned by Reeves family members, 3 branded horses Spur Livestock got from Vernon Starr of Dupree, SD only about 10 days before, 3 branded horses Jim Reeves got from Larry Long only 17 days before, and 6 horses from Jeff Hunt (Jim Reeves got 3 of these horses on 10/3/09) to kill buyer (Randy) Musick of Mitchell, SD.

7/17/12 – Lyle Anderson sent 2 horses, (1?No Brand” horse and a palomino mare noted “Brand no registered. Horse comes from No Brand Area.” to an unknown buyer (the buyer line was left blank) in Pueblo, CO.

Canon City Prison – a BLM “Maintenance Facility”

Oddly, in reviewing FOIA documents of “Animals Shipped” out of the Canon City (Prison) Maintenance facility, and comparing these to FOIA documents on BLM sales, in September, 2008, when Jim Reeves bought the 36 wild horses, records from Canon City Correctional Facility indicate that no horses were shipped out in September, 2008, and only 1 horse the following month (October, 2008), and only 33 horses the month after that (November, 2008). So did the 36 horses that Jim Reeves bought from the BLM at this facility just walk past a SWAT team and out a back door?...... more of report here.
http://rtfitchauthor.com/2013/01/22/breaking-news-wild-horses-sold-to-kill-buyer-by-blm-contractor/

ON BOTTOM a list of about 150 report sources including all the government contracts in case some Congress member cares enough to stop Government Fraud someday.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I'm reaching the conclusion that our government process as devolved into fraudelent methodology.

Look. There are good, high moral individuals that would make wonderful employees for an internal investigation bureau. I'm talking about people who would rather walk away from a job if it required them to break the law, or even show some kind of deceptive practices to the customers or client.

We need to start some agency that is manned with these kind of people who have background in forensic accounting and are profiling experts. One by one, they should go in and investigate our government programs and provide some kind of assessment to make sure those programs are not being abused, and if they are being abused, by whom.

We are incredibly naïve if we don't come face to face with the fact that our country is manned with leaders who understand that they can game the system, lie and cheat as long as they can hold up the appearance of American apple pie.

[eggplant]

11. Your error is in assuming that there was a time when it wasn't like this.

The system didn't devolve. This was how it was intended to work from the start.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. What I know now as an adult that I didn't know as a child is that there are

family groups that teach their own children how to game the system. Never realized how there are two concurrent messages being spread in this country. The sooner we let everyone know that many people are not who they claim to be, the sooner we can start holding people accountable.

[Scuba]

7. Why didn't Obama clean house? This is another one of these ....

http://ppjg.me/2013/07/02/blms-oil-gas-lease-corruption-exposed/

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/22/504322/the-blms-corrupt-coal-leasing-program-billions-in-subsidies-to-peabody-gigatons-of-carbon-pollution-for-the-rest-of-us/

[valerief]

8. Everything goes to the war profiteers. nt

[Dustlawyer]

9. This is what you would expect from corporate rule!

Until we institute Publicly Funded Elections we are screwed! It's shouldn't be hard to understand, it's bribery plain and simple.

Anyone running, other than Bernie, answers to corporate Donors.

[wildbilln864]

14. exactly! thank you. n/t

[JudyM]

10. Prosecute these S.O.B.s and have the IRS go through the rest of their books for the past 10 years.

[Blue_Tires]

15. I like how they tweeted this as "Obama's boondoggle"

Assange keeping it classy as usual... I'd like to ask about some of the criminal charges he's currently hiding from, but that is a discussion for another thread.

Someday folks will open their eyes to the messy loopholes related to "minority-owned businesses" and then we'll really see some fireworks...

So... Just out of curiosity, who taped all these calls?

EDIT: This has been part of an ongoing investigation since at least July: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/us/disabled-work-program-investigation/

I hope for Assange's sake he isn't fucking it up.