Government Waste

[Kuan]

http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/contracts-recipient-summary&id=12-AG3J14120297196&primeid=27

Contracts - Recipient Summary
CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC
Clarification of Codes

Award OverviewAgency Name Department of Agriculture Project Location LOS ANGELES
Contract Number AG3J14120297196 Project Location - State CA
Funding Amount $1,191,200 Project Location - Zip Code 90058-1800
Completion Date 2009-06-30 Congressional District CA-34



Recipient Information (Award)Recipient Name CLOUGHERTY PACKING, LLC Recipient Address 3049 E VERNON AVE
Recipient City LOS ANGELES Recipient State CALIFORNIA
Recipient Zip Code 90058-1800 Congressional District CALIFORNIA-34



Description of Work/Service performed

2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED

[TheDon]

wtf?

[pawoSD]

It may say "2 pound frozen ham sliced" But it might have been many thousands of hams! Etc....the description means nothing.

OR, it could be a sham and they used that to pay off someone or whatever. Who knows.

[TheDon]

Originally Posted by pawoSD

It may say "2 pound frozen ham sliced" But it might have been many thousands of hams! Etc....the description means nothing.

OR, it could be a sham and they used that to pay off someone or whatever. Who knows.

but why no quantity?

[tankdriver]

Originally Posted by TheDon

but why no quantity?

I doubt that's the official bill.

[Hatterasguy]

Might have been enough 2 pound hams to fee a division for all we know. Thats not an invoice.


Or its a payoff for an assasin or something. The pork reference might be a none PC term for a muslim terrorist they knocked off.

[Eskimo]

Look at the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service web site.

Here's a document from 28 April, 2009, for 760,000 pounds of the stuff - the numbers work out to about the total that was in the link in Kuan's OP:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5076379.

Perhaps, though, that's only the tip of the ham-berg. Here's a document from 20 May, 2009, for 4,080,000 pounds:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5076781.

[The Clk Man]

Ever tried to slice "Gubment" cheese with a plastic knife? I'm just asking.