Can’t believe Andrew Breitbart and the heroic citizen watchdogs fighting against bloated government corruption at BigGovernment.com haven’t said a word about this yet! Perhaps James O’Keefe is not donning his pimp costume even now, for some “undercover journalism” to shut these corrupt, tax-payer robbing bastards down once and for all! And prostitution foe “Patterico” is sharpening his poison pen of the people even as we speak!
I can’t deny it any longer. These are, after all, the most outrageous examples of ACORN corruption yet! And apparently it wasn’t just a few low level employees this time, but system corruption said to go to the very top of the organization, resulting in the defrauding of millions, if not billions of tax-payer dollars! It’s now clearer than ever that all of their federal funding must be denied once and for all! Get this…
From RAW STORY [emphasis added]:
The article continues, “In newly unsealed court records, a husband and wife who once worked for Blackwater said they had personal knowledge of the company falsifying invoices, double-billing federal agencies and charging the government for personal and inappropriate items whose real purpose was hidden. They said they witnessed ‘systematic’ fraud on the company’s security contracts with the Department of State in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.”…
The Davises assert that Blackwater officials kept a Filipino prostitute on the company payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan, and billed the government for her time working for Blackwater male employees in Kabul. The alleged prostitute’s salary was categorized as part of the company’s “Morale Welfare Recreation” expenses, they said.
The New York Times adds: “Ms. Davis also asserts…the company had billed the prostitute’s plane tickets and monthly salary to the government.”
This isn’t the first time that Blackwater has been accused of being involved in prostitution.
In August of 2009, it was reported that two former Blackwater employees claimed the firm was guilty of using child prostitutes at its compound in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and that owner Erik Prince knew of this activity and did nothing to stop it.
The declarations revealed in a lawsuit describe Blackwater as “having young girls provide oral sex to Enterprise members in the ‘Blackwater Man Camp’ in exchange for one American dollar.” They add even though Prince frequently visited this camp, he “failed to stop the ongoing use of prostitutes, including child prostitutes, by his men.”
One of the statements also charges that “Prince’s North Carolina operations had an ongoing wife-swapping and sex ring, which was participated in by many of Mr. Prince’s top executives.”
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The former employees additionally stated that Prince was engaged in illegal arms dealing, money laundering, and tax evasion, that he created “a web of companies in order to obscure wrong-doing, fraud, and other crimes,” and that Blackwater’s chief financial officer had “resigned … stating he was not willing to go to jail for Erik Prince.”
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More information on the 2009 charges can be found at this link.
Can you believe those corrupt bastards at ACORN?!
Verrrrrrrrrry funny, Brad… VERRRRRRRRRRRRY funny.
Keep pointing out their hypocrisy.
Pretty soon notso Breitbart and crew will find some $700 toilet seats to whine about and this will all disappear down the memory hole.
Didn’t this all start about ACORN when they figured out they were registering black people to vote? But they’re not racist, they’ll say. I’d guess that Andrews conversion started when blacks started moving into Brentwood listening to his Mom and Dad complain about it. Oh well.
Don’t forget that Blackwater is owned and operated and no doubt at least 75% of every one of their 10s of 1000s of nut bags they employ are all Fundamentalist Christians.
They are ALWAYS the worst.
Dude!!!You are ONTO these cats like a squash on Acorn!
And apparently this is just the tip of the Acorn iceberg.
I’m hearing that Acorn is also behind child prostitution rings in Up With People, John Hagee’s mega-church, and Pizzeria Unos.
This is a FACT, my friend.
I heard it from a good buddy of mine. He had a dream about it. And this is no hearsay schmearsay. I was IN THE ROOM WITH HIM when he told me the dream.
We have a videotape of that conversation complete with transcript. I’ll try to find for you. I’m not sure I still have it. I might have mailed it to someone.
Anyhow—Read ’em and weep, ACORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(As a point of joy)
Check this out. THIS is the spirit and style we need to bring to the revolution, in my opinion. Look how much fun he’s having!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EQcMCDToJ8
The article continues, “In newly unsealed court records, a husband and wife who once worked for Blackwater said they had personal knowledge of the company falsifying invoices, double-billing federal agencies and charging the government for personal and inappropriate items whose real purpose was hidden. They said they witnessed ‘systematic’ fraud on the company’s security contracts with the Department of State in Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.”…
The Davises assert that Blackwater officials kept a Filipino prostitute on the company payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan, and billed the government for her time working for Blackwater male employees in Kabul. The alleged prostitute’s salary was categorized as part of the company’s “Morale Welfare Recreation” expenses, they said.
how can peops not be outraged about this?
CNN sort of covered this story on Rick Sanchez today, except that he said Blackwater no longer exists, then continued to say compay spokesmen said this or denied that. He didn’t say what the company’s new name is.
So the name change game works; Blackwater – bad, Xe -clean slate!
CNN sort of covered this story on Rick Sanchez today, except that he said Blackwater no longer exists, then continued to say company spokesmen said this or denied that. He didn’t say what the company’s new name is.
So the name change game works; Blackwater – bad, Xe -clean slate!
Wow, my eyes are opened! I thought ACORN’s rampant corruption was worthy of our attention, possibly even our condemnation, but now that you have pointed out that other people have done very bad things, it’s like WHOA! WHAT JUST HAPPENED? I forgot what we were even talking about before! It’s like I had this thought in my head, and you just deflected it out of the way with this totally unrelated story! Thank you, Brad!
So… if I bring up a left-wing scandal now, does that mean we forget about Blackwater? Is it like a FIFO thing? Just curious.
Ron, “ACORN’s rampant corruption” certainly would be worthy of our attention, if it existed.
The point is that there are genuinely corrupt companies–with real-life whistleblowers and criminal allegations and everything–being paid orders of magnitude more in public funds than ACORN and receiving a fragment of the propoganda coverage and political condemnation.
Ron, there IS no rampant corruption at Acorn.
You’ve actually been lied to by the bastard children of the Arkansas project.
You’re a fucking moron.
Hi, I’m new here. I’m just so thrilled one can write the word “fuck” without being thrown from the site because, you know, sometimes it’s the only appropriate word to use.