Federal Shipping Fraud
Posted by Amanda on August 17th, 2007 . Filed under: News .A SC parts supplier billed the Pentagon $998,798 for sending two $0.19 washers to a Texas base – and the Pentagon paid it. In fact, the Pentagon shelled out more than $20 million over 6 years in fraudulent shipping costs. Apparantly, once the supplier realized that they would be paid, they got bolder in the amounts they demanded.
Charlene Corley could face up to 40 years in prison and was fined $750,000.
My question is why isn’t anyone at the Pentagon getting in trouble? Obviously they weren’t paying attention to the invoices they were receiving. I’m pretty sure I would have noticed paying nearly $1 million for a washer if I was in their accounts receivable department. Wouldn’t you?
