>US will spend 43 million dollars on a gas station in the middle of nowhere in the desert in afghanistan
>$7000 coffee makers
>$600 toilet seats
>$37 for A screw
>$435 for a hammer
>$285 screwdriver
>$387 flat washer
>$469 wrench
>$214 flashlight,
>$437 tape measure
>$2,228 monkey wrench,
>$748 pair of duckbill pliers
>$74,165 aluminum ladder
>$659 ashtray
>$1,118.26 for a spare plastic cap for a navigator’s stool on a B-52 bomber (worth about two cents)
>Defense Accounting Finance Service writes $22 billion in checks every month
>Mark Krenik (pentagon officer) created a phony company and then billed himself $504,000. He had to repay the money, but was not sentenced to prison. Probation only, and a $495 fine. He told the federal judge that he did it because everyone else in his section was doing to the same, but he was not required to name names.
>Sgt. Robbie Miller convicted and sent to prison for stealing $1 million. would not have been caught but was involved in affairs with female co-workers. Agents say they got Miller when he was hauling evidence out of the office to burn it.
>Contractors were billing $300 a night hotel rooms, private jet flights, meals at five star restaurants and bar bills to the government.
>Air Force non-commissioned officers like Miller, who handle giant
accounts at Dayton, call any vendor account that is less than $100,000
“budget dust” and say it’s not worth the time or effort trying to
recover.
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