Talk About Pressing Your Luck

A contractor to the Pentagon is up on charges of fraud. In one instance, in 2006, the government paid C&D Distributors $998,798 in transportation costs for shipping two 19-cent washers.

Among the invoices the Pentagon paid before the scam was discovered:


• A 2004 order for a single $8.75 elbow pipe that was shipped for $445,640, according to the documents.

• Also that year, a $10.99 machine thread plug was shipped for $492,096.

• Last year, six machine screws worth a total of $59.94 were shipped at a cost of $403,436.


One of the owners of the business committed suicide, the other, her twin sister, has plead guilty but says her sister was the main person behind it. They bought luxury houses, cars and plastic surgery with their take of $20 million.

How about some people at the Pentagon being held accountable for paying almost $1 million for two $.19 washers. That's a 2.5 million % markup. Dang. Those contractors were ballsy. And stupid. They were ballsy and stupid with plastic surgery. Was it Courtney Love?

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-LB

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