Friday, February 26, 2010
When you can't do business with the government
You just create a mini-me company to do the work with your people, your equipment and the checks sent to the same place. The government will never know. It worked for Blackwater.
Blackwater set up a shell company to "defraud the government" by leading it to believe it wasn't contracting with the notorious security contractor, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill says.And our Pentagon contract people were willing to hire just any old born yesterday bunch of mercs as long as it wasn't Blackwater.
"In Afghanistan, they set up this shell company, Paravant, in collaboration with mammoth war giant Raytheon, which held the prime contract" for training Afghan security forces, Scahill told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.
"And they set up this contract to try to hide the fact that the Pentagon was once again hiring Blackwater, this firm that's been under investigation by practically every federal entity in the United States," Scahill continued. "It's a shell company that was used to essentially defraud the government by convincing the Army that Blackwater was not getting the contract, but this company Paravant."
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