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Dude, we should, like, totally defraud the Pentagon
By Ned | March 27, 2008
Son of a bitch. Apparently some 22-year old broseph with a fake ID managed to scam the DoD out of $300 mill in contracts.
How does a 22 year-old get a multi-million dollar defense contract? you ask. “AEY’s proposal represented the best value to the government,” the Army tells the Times. (Never mind that AEY was headed by a guy who’d been busted by the police for carrying a fake ID.)
AEY’s fattest contract came in January of last year, when a Pentagon contract made AEY, “which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach,… the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces.” AEY’s VP is 25 and a licensed masseur. AEY also had a $5.7 million contract for rifles for Iraqi forces, among others.
As the Times found out, AEY fulfilled that contract by dealing with a variety of shady arms dealers (one Czech, one Swiss) to get their hands on ammo stockpiles in the old Eastern bloc.
Plus they lied about the shoddy quality of the arms themselves. I can’t possibly describe my rage now. I’m literally shaking with fury. I mean, this guy’s only a few years older than me, and he’s already completed the whole story arc of the rise and downfall of a war profiteer. Meanwhile, how much progress have I made on my complicated Pentagon arms scam?
Jack shit, that’s how much. No, I’m sitting here and writing on my blog like a dipshit when I could be weaving my byzantine web of corruption instead. I need to get on this. Now.
Yo, John! I have a business proposition for you.
Topics: Corruption, Iraq |