[antimedia] antimedia: This infuriates me....

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Posted by antimedia:
This infuriates me....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1150658159.shtml


   ....if it's true. I say "if", because it's the Associated Press and
   God only knows when something they publish is really true.
   A company hired to handled disaster relief on 9/11 in New York and
   Washington apparently[1]stole supplies given to them by the government
   to distribute -- boots for the firemen, water, t-shirts, etc. and
   shipped them to another location to sell. They even had the chutzpah
   to have some of the t-shirts silk-screened and then tried to sell them
   back to New York fireman and police for $12.00 per shirt!
   The FBI began an investigation, but during the investigation they
   discovered that some FBI agents had "stolen" momentos form the
   disaster sites (broken lamps with company names on them, for example),
   and someone in the FBI decided they could not prosecute the company
   because the FBI "thefts" would be uncovered during the trial.
   Now, first of all, "stealing" some of the detritus from a disaster
   site isn't a violation of any federal rules, but even if it were a
   crime, it's nowhere near as serious as taking disaster relief supplies
   and selling them for 100% profits on the taxpayers' backs.
   Secondly, if some sort of crime was committed by the FBI agents, then
   they should have been prosecuted too. What kind of twisted mind does
   it take to cover up minor wrongdoing by not prosecuting a major and
   craven fraud by a government contractor?
   Whoever made this decision should be fired. (The executives of the
   company eventually pled guilty of fraud and went to jail, and the
   company is no longer in business.)

References

   1. http://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002689586&imw=Y