Tag Archives: The Pentagon’s Marauding Fraudsters

The Department of Defense identified $285 billion it paid over a three-year time span to hundreds of military contractors that committed fraud during the same period. A provision Bernie tucked into a Pentagon spending bill required the report. “The truth is that virtually all of the major defense contractors for years have engaged in systemic, illegal, and fraudulent behavior while receiving hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money. With the country running a $14 trillion national debt, the Department of Defense and Congress must finally put an end to these abuses.” Continue reading →