Saturday, August 18, 2007

And You Thought Mailing a Letter was Expensive

Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas


"A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to a Texas base, U.S. officials said...

A review of paid shipping invoices showed that fraudulent billing is ``is not a widespread problem,'' she said."




The people who it took 6 years to discover the billing fraud say the problem is not widespread. Is anyone else having doubts?

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