The Justice Department has announced that a USAID official named Roderick Watson, 57, of Woodstock, Maryland, and three corporate executives, Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland; Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida, and Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland, have pleaded guilty to a decade long scam involving bribery using USAID funds and awarded government contracts.
Roderick Watson took bribes and directed over $550 million to the three USAID contractors. [SEE DETAILS HERE]
DOJ – […] According to court documents, beginning in 2013, Watson, while a USAID contracting officer, agreed with Britt to receive bribes in exchange for using Watson’s influence to award contracts to Apprio. As a certified small business under the SBA 8(a) contracting program, which helps socially and economically disadvantaged businesses, Apprio could access lucrative federal contracting opportunities through set-asides and sole-source contracts exclusively available to eligible contractors without a competitive bid process.
Vistant was a subcontractor to Apprio on one of the contracts awarded through Watson’s influence. After Apprio graduated from the SBA 8(a) program and it was no longer eligible to be a prime contractor for new contracts with USAID under this program, the scheme shifted so that Vistant became the prime contractor and Apprio became the subcontractor on USAID contracts awarded through Watson’s influence between 2018 and 2022.
During the scheme, Britt and Barnes paid bribes to Watson that were often concealed by passing them through Young, who was the president of another subcontractor to Apprio and Vistant. Britt and Barnes also regularly funneled bribes to Watson, including cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, downpayments on two residential mortgages, cellular phones, and jobs for relatives.
The bribes were also often concealed through electronic bank transfers falsely listing Watson on payroll, incorporated shell companies, and false invoices. Watson is alleged to have received bribes valued at more than approximately $1 million as part of the scheme. (read more)
I see my useless Senator, Smelly Moore Capito, in the background behind Ms. Lindsey in the top picture. 🤮
I am really shocked a few others were not in the picture. Please tell me there are more bribe party pics to come!
I’m sure Mr. Golden Tie got his share one way or another. Sick of this clown.
Maybe he just got golden showers to match his tie and purse…
That’s a feckless bunch for a political party, but, when it comes to corruption, they shine.
Really offensive odors!
Amazed she continually gets elected in WV. I guess Manchin was the template. For what, I don’t know in one of the biggest MAGA states.
Wonder what information these three would be willing to give as to others who no doubt are as corrupt as they are in exchange for reduced sentences.
Bet there are some very moist foreheads and palms in DC (and elsewhere) right about now.
Over half a billion dollars doesn’t get misappropriated without higher ups and perhaps some members of congress not knowing and benefitting from the grift.
Where is the other 22T dollars? There should be file cabinets full of binders. A mountain full to be more realistic.
Watson said, ‘We thought USAID meant AID for US 🙂
Similar to how government employees believe the public is there to “serve us”.
Look for those binders in Mister Potato Head’s Delaware garage.
Perfect time to play hardball. And not Bondi.
perhaps
“What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the State powers into the hands of the General Government!”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1800
knowing
Uniparty deniers pretend not to know they’re lying for their truth.
benefitting
The more consolidated a government becomes, the more corrupt it becomes.
grift
USpAID welfare-queens are having democracy withdrawals like dry drunks.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113957815659314093
Grifting is correct!
The domain of most Democrats and many Republicans, big money people who fund their campaigns, and contractors who want government work.
It also includes the non-profit and education industry at all levels, local, state, and federal.
Can’t remember who wrote these lyrics or sang this song “All the time in hell to spend for messing around with (married) men. I have known a few men who prefer men. But they are peaceful and love each other, and I have found great joy in their company. I guess Ms. Lindsey doesn’t accept what eyes can see and sense about him.
None of the men I have known who have Ms. Lindsey’s persuasion would in their wildest DREAMS emulate him. A concert pianist, a therapist? Going to shut up now because I sense my nastiness getting worse.
“All of this time in hell to spend
For kissing the married men “
The Roches
Wow!
Lord let this be the tip of the iceberg 🙏🏻
Lord, please let the entire iceberg be exposed!
Now imagine what has been going on in DoD, HUD, and DHHS.
imagine
Luke… I am not your father.
what
Keeler… You are not my father.
has
Kamala… You are not my daughter.
been
Imagine a new way forward…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/02/mexico-remittances-drop-12-1-in-april-vs-last-year/
Unburdened by the old way forward…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2016/02/09/prescient-trump-hidden-report-mexico-remittances-total-more-than-entire-mexican-oil-revenue/
“Vistant agreed that the appropriate criminal penalty based on the law and facts in its case is $86,407,740; however, Vistant also met its burden of establishing an inability to pay the criminal penalty sought. Based on the Justice Department’s independent analysis, it determined that paying a criminal penalty and civil settlement greater than $100,000 would substantially threaten the continued viability of Vistant.”
And that’s considered a problem by the Justice Department, so the Justice Department found a way for them not to have their viability threatened. It’s right there in the fourth to last paragraph.
SPIT!!!
Insane!!!! HELP!!!
WTF?!?
Apprio admitted to owing $51M in fines as well…
But that chunk of change would “substantially threaten the continued viability” of their “operation” also…
Go figure…
DOGE identifies unbridled waste, fraud {theft} and abuse…
Even magic money computers…
SWEET !!!
We The People are in the money now…
But NO…
We The People cannot have Our money back…
Best Fed dot Guv can do is to shove a big, beautiful bill…
Promising to cut the rate of theft {taxation}…
And perpetuating indentured servitude,
Right up the collective asses of We The
People.
Personality does not factor in mathematics.
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
cash
“Paper is poverty… it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
–Thomas Jefferson, 1788
trust
In Credit We Trust
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114636734825372318
Fear
In Bricks We Thrust
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/09/ag-pam-bondi-announces-fbi-have-identified-viral-brick-throwing-la-rioter-who-targeted-law-enforcement/
They should have been put out of business but hands in the kitty!
Crime pays.
Mere “cost of doing business”…..
For all the naysayers, looks to me like Bondi is doing her job and did not go on Fox News to “toot” her horn.
Sideshow…….easier to go after the no names.
How many more investigations like this are taking place?
investigations
Depends on how many social media accounts you have.
There’s a spook behind every mailbox.
Kidding. AI is inside every inbox.
place
When you’re investigating multi-national crime syndicates, global mafias, political cults, private intelligence, and so on… stay off the roof.
This case required great efforts on the part of various agencies in Law Enforcement.
The case preceded Trump.
I wonder if it was sitting idle under the Biden Admin and kickstarted by the Trump Admin. ?
“…According to court documents, in 2022, Barnes and Watson defrauded a licensed small business investment company (SBIC), in furtherance of the bribery scheme, by inducing it into executing a credit agreement with Vistant. Through the credit agreement, Barnes caused Vistant to issue stock warrants that, if exercised, would result in the SBIC having a 40% equity stake in Vistant. The credit agreement also provided for a $14 million loan to Vistant from which Barnes could pay himself a $10 million dividend. Prior to executing the credit agreement, Watson agreed at Barnes’s request to speak with the SBIC about Vistant’s performance as a government contractor on USAID contracts. When speaking with the SBIC, Watson omitted that Barnes had bribed Watson to obtain USAID contracts for years. Watson’s endorsement of Vistant thereafter induced the SBIC to enter into the credit agreement with Barnes.”
But Trump’s DOJ has to “protect the continued viability of Vistant”.
Somebody please make this make sense.
Isn’t it time that Feral Government Bribery was made a Capital Offense?
Make Treason and Public Corruption Executable Again!
I like the way you think!!!
US BAND AID money for anyone or anything that asks for it. For all I know, Lindsey Graham has received USAID money for some NGO to help “CURE HIS INSANITY WITH WEARING PINK TUTU’s AND DANCING IN FRONT OF A MIRROR EVERY DAY.
With his bourbon on the rocks drink in hand.
OUCH! Thanks for that mental image!
I think that is true. I believe he is still the owner of the company that he and McCain founded together.
You mean this company? McCain ran it for 25 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Republican_Institute
Well, that’s quite the history of mischief and mayhem.
https://www.iri.org/who-we-are/iri-experts/u-s-senator-lindsey-graham/
Wimsey, Tom Cotton, Joni Ernst, and more. What a freaking scam.
https://www.iri.org/about/
The America Last Institute is a subsidiary of the Bribem Back Better Center for Election Interference.
A new era for ASU’s McCain Institute without namesake Sen. John McCain
“The institute, through ASU, is preparing to partner with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to design online campaigns to counter extremism.
“…big-name newsmakers were the highlight of the invitation-only conferences that featured headliners such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/06/25/new-era-asus-mccain-institute-without-namesake-sen-john-mccain/1446683001/
Imagine a new way forward, unburdened by the old way forward.
President Joe Biden visited Tempe last week to headline the dedication ceremony for the McCain library
“Biden used the opportunity to hit on core themes of his reelection campaign, such as the maintenance of American democracy and the defense of American institutions against political extremism.
“Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ), former Gov. Doug Ducey (R), Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego (D), and Ambassador Cindy McCain, the widow of the senator, were in attendance for the ceremony.”
https://chamberbusinessnews.com/2023/10/02/asu-announces-creation-of-the-mccain-national-library/
“Bribem Back Better” = lol
Sundance: I just found this and wanted to share with you. One happy little Wolverine! https://www.facebook.com/reel/500606003078093
Something doesn’t add up.
$550 million in contracts awarded through bribery, where the DOJ formula indicates $138 million in fines but the companies can’t afford to pay more than $600 thousand.
Also, part of the scheme set up a participant to collect a $10 million dividend but… no mention of a clawback.
Where’s the money?
IMO companies should be liquidated and sold off with proceeds going back into the U.S. Treasury.
Ditto for personal belongings bought by guilty parties with their ill gotten gains.
Who says crime does not pay? They get to go back to their cushy lifestyle after getting free R&B in prison.
Similar to the bank rackets, they steal 10 billion and then are fined 1 billion that is funneled to leftist causes via CFPB liz warrens crime racket.
That program has been around for decades. My recollection is that President Trump stopped it in his first term. No doubt it resumed during the Biden administration.
Just another example:
“Re: In the Matter of Sandwich Isles Communications, Inc., Waimana Enterprises, Inc., Albert S.N. Hee, EB-IHD-15-00019603
Over the course of nearly 15 years, Sandwich Isles Communications received millions of dollars through the Commission’s Universal Service Fund. This was taxpayer money intended to support deployment and maintenance of communications networks for the benefit of the people living in the Hawaiian Homelands. But Albert Hee—then the sole shareholder of Sandwich Isles and its parent company, Waimana Enterprises—had different ideas.
Hee was engaged in a long-running scheme to use corporate funds from Sandwich Isles, Waimana, and several other affiliated companies he controlled to pay numerous personal expenses for himself and members of his family, including more than $90,000 to his personal masseuse, family vacations to Europe and the South Pacific, his children’s college tuition, vehicles, and inflated salaries for his wife and children. In 2016, Hee was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison in connection with this scheme. And following an investigation by USAC that uncovered Hee’s and Sandwich Isles’ misappropriation of Universal Service Fund money, the Commission barred Sandwich Isles from siphoning any more money from the Fund and sought to recover the $27 million Sandwich Isles overcharged the Fund. We also proposed to impose a forfeiture of $49.6 million on the company.”
Things are being prosecuted because of Trump!
Let’s recall:
Thank God and Pray for his protection.
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946 in New York City, NY.
He is currently 78 years of age.
Tomorrow is his birthday…
Trump, at now age 79, is fighting anywhere from 50 to 75 battles/crisis each day.
The man is a God-send.
I have no idea how he does it.
He is truly our Batman.
Happy Birthday Mr. President!!!
8 (a) program. You are viewing the tip of the iceberg. Ms Bondi, how deep are you willing to dig?
If it follows the vendor scam going on with “private” businesses providing goods on GSAAdvantage, Women owned, Minority, etc., etc., it will get rather deep if anyone bothered to investigate.
Small Business Administration
The same one that has given out unbiassed loans to minorities?
The same objective outfit that overlooks weird coincidences?
The same group that only gives out hotel loans on ONE condition?
The condition being that your last name has to be Patel?
THAT small business administration?
Oh. Three of the 4 charged were from Maryland. Color me shocked.
SBA reviews contract RFP and determines what can be subbed-out. If the prime proposes some outfit and SBA issues a “certificate of competency” contracting officer must make the award.
Bingo. Who gets the credit for this? Whistleblower?
Promises made, perps convicted.
I love the sign of the useful idiot in the picture -“Musk & Trump: Keep your facist hands off USAID.” You’re not fooling anybody, moron.
This is a start. Keep going.
From the Vistant LLC website: Vistant is an integrated solutions company supporting a healthier world, safer environments, and stronger global communities. For more than 15 years, we have been providing international development, healthcare, and Federal agencies with the knowledge, systems, and teams to advance their missions. By accelerating the transformation of people, processes, and technology we create innovative and lasting solutions to the most complex global humanitarian, health, and security challenges.
Check out the dates: This company came into existence in 2008 and ceased operations in 2023. Gee don’t those dates look coincidental??
In 2023, the PM Consulting Group absorbed Vistant and took the Vistant LLC name.
From what I have seen, the combination has its fingers in the pockets of: DoD, the State Department, USAID, various US as well as International NGO’s supporting human and political system development … this is just 1 of many corrupt Icebergs floating in the Federal Funds toilet bowl … and DoJ saw fit to save these INTERNATIONAL criminals from being put out of business.
Per The Daily Signal the fraud involved paying bribes to award no-bid contracts to racial minorities. Always suspicious when there are no photos of the guilty.
Go to the company websites on Linkedin, Facebook, et al … there are names and pictures.
Aprio LLC, the second company mention in the article above is a frigging 84 man belt-way bandit consulting company. In other words, guys with clipboards who sow and say “yep you got a problem here, and for a few 100 Million more we’ll tell you how to fix it and for a few 100 Million More hire and manage somebody to fix it.”
Apprio | LinkedIn
Based on the article and website of Vistant … Aprio hired another “consulting company”. i.e. Vistant.
So, $550 Million later there were 2-GROUPS of people with clip boards getting filthy rich sayin’ … yep you got a problem.
I am willing to say without a doubt … this is exactly what DOGE found in more than a few case.
In short, like IRI, it is the perfect, noble-sounding money laundering mechanism.
Vistant’s resume is so packed with corporate feelgood bullshyt, I suspect a couple of Radcliffe College grads wrote it.
You find some minority you can show on paper as “controlling”, then you get SBA to certify you and you get sole-source award.
The real crime here is the 8(a) program itself. Agencies are required to set aside a certain amount of their budgets for minority and women-owned businesses to be awarded contracts noncompetitively. In practice, the contractors just subcontract out the work to the contractor who would have done it anyway, but then they put their overhead charge on top of it. So the ostensibly minority-owned contracting business is actually just a shell company that does no actual work, but gets its overhead fee.
It is also my first hand experience that Congress Critters and Local Politicians often “suggest” which companies to hire under the 8(a) Program … and shazaam if there is not some direct or indirect link.
Plus, the Congress Critter just “happens” to know people on the selection board for any contracts involved.
There’s no selection board. It’s noncompetitive. The agency just awards the 8(a) contract to whomever the contracting officer wants to give it to. They don’t even put it out for bids.
Bingo!
Yes. Pretty much a scam.
So what did the 550 million actually buy?
Was it for inflated non existent and/or intangible services.
For example consultant services for directing advertising budgets in corporate shakedowns.
This is where you need to dig just a little bit into the companies involved. Not only did the $550 Million buy noting but a “paper” report that says … yep you got a problem but those companies have fewer than 100 employees and 2 or 3 big chiefs who collect ALL the cash.
If you really want to dig into the big money, look at a company called SAIC. I believe it was started by former CIA Director John Deutch. Politically connected with massive federal contracts in a number of pies.
Or look at a company called Centene. A company founded by Dick Gephardt with Tommy Thompson as the current director. I don’t know when they began, but they received massive federal contracts to “administer” health care in the community for veterans starting at the end of Obama’s reign of error. It was during that period that a number of veterans were being referred to this program, would receive care in the community, then Centene would fail to pay the bills. Medical providers were going after veterans, with many having bills turned over to Collections.
I believe this was a huge reason why President Trump began the White House Hotline for veterans. Waiting on care, and bills not being paid.
There are many others just like the two above in and around DC. Former politicians or the politically connected with almost direct access to the Treasury.
SAIC is a pretty important contractor. Like all they have their contacts in Congress. Don’t think that makes them better or worse than average.
When is someone going to look into Wimsey for taking USAID money for his International Republican gig?
To understand this prosecution and plea deal you must understand the federal government for what it is: The National Crime Syndicate. It operates very much like the mafia movies portray, many crime families that come together to orchestrate and coordinate their criminal activities, some families run the numbers rackets, some run the prostitution, some the liquor, some the guns. Divvied up by city/region. Everyone gets their piece of the action, as long as they play (mostly) straight it runs smoothly. The most powerful family has top spot, largest share. Most trusted allied families get their preferred status take. The lower families stay in their lane, don’t get greedy, do well, but not tops. Runs nicely…until some of the families want to renegotiate their status. Deals get cut. If any of the most trusted allied families ever become disgruntled or have ideas of being tops they may get in the middle of power play that shakes things up. Sometimes they get too big for their britches and get whacked when the most powerful family gets wind of treachery, or something that could upset the balances and agreements that have been made.
This is the federal government of the United States today. And there’s an International Crime Syndicate that is similarly structured. With that as the paradigm understanding why the Biden DOJ took action against these four criminals makes more sense. They aren’t “made men” protected by any powerful family. They took something that wasn’t theirs to take. And to keep everybody in the Syndicate straight and avoid family wars within it there has to be repercussions for unauthorized racketeering. Some private equity fund investors were hurt by it. Probably protected by made men. Biden’s DOJ acted.
https://www.nottinghammd.com/2025/06/13/usaid-official-three-corporate-executives-plead-guilty-to-decade-long-bribery-scheme-involving-more-than-550-million-in-contracts/
The nexus to USAID was just background noise, irrelevant to Biden’s DOJ when it began the investigation. Only notable because of DOGE since Trump took office. But completely unrelated. If Biden/Kamala won the same plea deal would’ve been made and we wouldn’t be talking about it.
There will be no songbirds coming out of this. Not if any of them want to walk out of prison alive. Sometimes the mafia players get pinched, when they get stupid, out of line. If they take their punishment and do their time quietly, are loyal mafia soldiers they’ll be remembered as such and out on the street soon enough, their families will be taken care of. If they start making noise like they’ll sing they face an Epstein ending. And they know it. And their families may find misfortune. So they won’t be turned by Trump’s DOJ. They know their situation. And will do the time. The penalties are light, the sentences won’t be the maximums, three of them will be out after shorter stints than grandma J6 protesters taking selfies in rope lines served. One, Watson will serve a little longer, but it beats the alternative for him and his family.
Note: Tritt was probably the mastermind of the extracurricular racket. He must’ve learned how the game was played while he was involved in the Haiti Earthquake relief efforts, Clinton-Bush level global bribery. And wanted a taste, thought he could pull it off:
https://leadersportfolio.com/archives/2797
His Health/Defense/Homeland Security work gave him a false sense of being an untouchable; he wasn’t:
https://theorg.com/org/apprio-health/org-chart/darryl-britt
So he and his co-conspirators will pay the price for being stupid. But aren’t so stupid they’ll be helping roll up the powerful political mafia families and racketeers. Small upside. Yuge downside.
Great assessment. Particularly your outline of the “Mafia code”.
You can steal, but don’t steal from the ones really running the show.
Anyone from Atlanta or Georgia remember former Mayor of Atlanta Bill Campbell?
One of many elected politicians from Georgia that was crooked? One of the very
few Georgia politicians that actually went to jail.
HIs biggest crime was that he muscled in on the money that the long time
Atlanta crime families were in control of. The ones far in the background, that
run the show, stay out of the paper. All of whom are white, and the minority’
politicians serve at the request.
It was easy for any long time sidelines observer to figure out that Campbell
had muscled in on the money because of one thing. The massive, ongoing
pile on by the local papers and news stations when Campbell was initially
charged. Normally, almost any non Republican politician could steal everything
ithat wasn’t glued down, and the press would say nothing,
In Campbell’s case there were 2500 word articles about it.
I remember spending some time in the North End of Boston. Heavy Italian population for many years, mafia family stronghold. (visited recently, it’s being gentrified, redeveloped now, the Italian influence is waning). At the time Boston led the nation in auto thefts. Every part of Boston had car break-ins and thefts, except for the North End. Criminals knew they were taking a big risk to steal in that part of town. Story goes that the one time a criminal tried their luck it didn’t turn out so good for him. He picked the wrong car. Something about begging for mercy, not knowing. Mafia sent a message by taking him out. Steal all you want, just not from the ones running that part of Boston.
Can see how this thinking works in the third world. Like Somalia, families, gangs protect their own, how societies devolve, tribal, family allegiance. Begins to explain why Afghanistan, Silk Road history of massive transfers of wealth, invaders, instability, has such a strong family-tribal oriented society, not so much statecraft as we’re used to in the West. Over thousands of years of civilizations coming and going they learn to be wary of temporary powers exerting influences on them. They come and go. Afghani’s (and similar) adhere to the “Strong Horse” theory of power, rule. No loyalty to transitory things like ideas and foreign adventurists. Loyal to their families, tribes and leveraging alliances with the strongest horse in their realm at any given time. The absence of stability and presence of survival hardships makes loyalty to family, tribe the most logical way of living in those neighborhoods.
If we’re not very careful we may find ourselves in that paradigm sooner than most of us are prepared for. That is a more natural order of the world, human existence than the democratic republic form of governance we were born into. The 1776 experiment is still ongoing. And facing its biggest crisis since the War of Northern Aggression.
North Boston sounds like parts of Harrison Township (Northridge, outside of Dayton) , Ohio .
Back in the day. Lots of drugs, lots of petty crime, some car theft. With the exception of a few
streets in a certain part of the township. Because that’s where Bill Stepp lived.
Anybody 55 plus that grew up in the northern suburbs of Dayton could tell you who Bill Stepp
was. Dayton didn’t have Italian mob, but we sure had hillbilly mobsters, and Bill was numero
uno.
Your bringing back memories of my late teens, past high school. Bill and his goons were in
a number of them. Most of the time EMTs had to be called afterwards.
EU
E.U.S.S.R. is a threat to democracy.
stupid
It’s not the economy, it’s the stupid.
mafia
Italians have a saying… the truth, after the fact, won’t help you much.
Note in the text…this began in 2013.
12 years this corruption has gone on. 12 years Congress has either looked the other way or held their hands out for their share.
DC is a disgusting, festering cesspool.
Common Sense Carson mentioned it’s a cesspool.
“They call it a swamp but I think that’s a compliment, it’s really a cesspool.”
–Ben Carson
You may have to dip yourself in spiritual silicon before armor to wade in the muck.
Tip of the iceberg. No doubt there are dozens, if not hundreds, more of these cases waiting to be discovered.
Well, it’s a start, but I’m not holding my breath for more arrests to be made. I know how politics works…this just seems to be some scapegoats offered up to appease We the People.
arrests
Mueller accused an innocent man of being the terrorist anthrax killer.
know
It took him 5 years to reveal it wasn’t the first accused.
offered
We didn’t have a Patriot Act before that.
appease
Biden Admin Labelled COVID Mandate Critics as ‘Domestic Violent Extremists’
https://rumble.com/v6tw08t-dni-chief-tulsi-gabbard-reveals-biden-admin-tag-those-who-oppose-covid-mand.html
Pathetic. Two prosecuted and cooperated received millions of our money and only have to pay back $100,000 and $500,000. They should be bankrupted!
Corruption flourishes in communities of corrupted people.
There are many forms of corruption, in addition to obvious forms such as bribery.
Zip code 22101 comes to mind.
Shell companies, off shore accounts, large sums of cash and gold bullion. And people want to know why all those federal elected officials have so many properties off a government job! One thing they know well, money laundering.
Tip of the iceberg.
“The one thing they did agree on, was the troop buildup in Afghanistan.”
Stealing from the U.S. government is easier than stealing candy from a baby, and there is never any jail time; the money is never recovered. No wonder Musk lost his mind, for a brief period.
Now let’s see how many weeks in a country club prison they get.
I lived in Columbia,MD for 20+ years. Guarantee there are a lot more bribery cases just waiting to be exposed. Town is loaded with CIA (State Department employees) and NSA
Small fries compared to what should be coming out.
“three owners and presidents of companies, have pleaded guilty for their roles in a decade-long bribery scheme involving at least 14 prime contracts worth over $550 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars.”
And they get away with just $600,000 in fines!
Curious as to when this was discovered. Was it already under investigation before Trump got into office or was this a 100% due to DOGE and the first prosecution of newly discovered corruption?
McCain taught him well it would seem.
If they just made fraud against the government a hanging offense…..
Just think of the possibilities….
NO MERCY!
I am shocked said no one to this news.
Why are the Republican senators pictures included, what did they have to do with it?
And these dedicated civil servants are not in position to make money but to serve the public my ass.
Wait. A family farm can be seized for a few thousand in unpaid taxes, but defrauding half a billion lets you keep your company home and assets?!?!?! I guess that “equal protection” is just a guideline.
Why never any pictures of perps?
There they are…right above Trump and Rubio
Starting with the low-hanging fruit…
It’s a joke. Follow the link and see what they actually had to pay for their crimes. Then you’ll see where the real corruption is at. The DOJ prosecutes them and then gives them a slap on the wrist. On with business as usual, and they are still allowed to do business ripping us off after paying incredibly TINY fines. Nothing has changed.
We had a lot of that happen in CA contracting too but not involving USAID to my knowledge.
I worked on contracting out hundreds of millions of dollars for various types of work for the State Water Project.
Bidders using small, veteran owned and minority subcontractors in “name only” was something we ran across often.
Diligent contracting staff were able to not award to those contractors utilizing a cumbersome process, but not everyone wanted to put in the extra effort.
Holy ish!!! I live in myakka
Where’d my comment go 😔
Hmmmmm. Maybe there is even more crime. Britt’s Florida “health” company: https://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResults?InquiryType=EntityName&InquiryDirectionType=ForwardRecord&SearchTerm=Apprio&SearchNameOrder=APPRINTING%20L140001451790&ListNameOrder=APPRIOHEALTH%20M190000055680&Detail=FL.DOS.Corporations.Shared.Contracts.FilingRecord
SIDESHOW.