In a stunning example of the Pentagon's paying prowess, C&D Distributors, a "small parts supplier" in South Carolina, charged more than $20.5 million dollars in fraudulent shipping costs:
It's good these guys were caught, but here's where I think the problem really lies:
``The majority, if not all of these parts, were going to high-priority, conflict areas -- that's why they got paid,'' Stroot said. If the item was earmarked ``priority,'' destined for the military in Iraq, Afghanistan or certain other locations, ``there was no oversight.''
(emphasis mine).
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