07-30-2004, 03:09 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Amsterdam, Old Europe
Posts: 841
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Re: The irony only gets sweeter...
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Originally posted by Zeitgeist
Corporate criminals one and all: Time for a little "three strikes and yer out!!"
"A study by the Project on Government Oversight, a public interest group, has found that major U.S. corporations who get billions of dollars of government contracts are guilty of cheating on these contracts and ripping off the taxpayer. The Project studied the criminal histories of these companies and found that many had engaged in adjudicated fraudulent activities (some criminal)Ñmany of them three or more times.
The study found that General Electric had defrauded the government 16 times since 1990. An easy way to punish companies in the habit of ripping off the taxpayer is to establish a three-strikes principle that any corporation caught defrauding the government three times or more would no longer be eligible for government contracts. This would disqualify an impressive roster of fraud-tainted losers from receiving government contracts, including Boeing (4), Grumman (5), Honeywell (3), Hughes Aircraft (9), Martin Marietta (5), McDonnell Douglas (4), Northrop (4), Raytheon (4), Rockwell (4), Teledyne (5), Texas Instruments (3) and United Technologies (3)."
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I this part of the world, an individual with a criminal record usually cann't even get a government-paid job anymore...
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