Federal Offical Gets Away With Fraud

Author: Carlton Purvis, Published on Dec 06, 2013

You are a government official who goes out drinking and golfing with your neighbor.

Your neighbor also happens to sell surveillance equipment. You let him write the statement of work and he wins a $250,000+ USD deal.

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Questions ******The OIG report doesn't answer questions about how Olson was able to push the contract through with minimal involvement with procurement officers. That is indicative of a bigger problem in DHS and FPS.

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Comments (3)

Ross Vander Klok

IPVMU Certified | 12/06/13 03:38pm

A government official getting away with something that would have had someone in private industry fired or even prosecuted!?!?!? Shocking! Simply shocking…..

I think you could devote your entire life to writing articles like this Carlton and even churn a few out a day dealing with surveillance and the security industry as a whole. I also don’t think anything would ever change unfortunately.

Jon Dillabaugh

Pro Focus LLC | 12/06/13 10:01pm

Maybe the payback was washing his balls for him.... golf balls.

Jason Clement

12/09/13 07:52pm

What else is new. The government is one giant ball of corruption.

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