Why didn’t I get rich off 9/11? Why didn’t I figure out an angle, a way to exploit the tragedy? I could have bought flags to sell. I could have invested in Kevlar.
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What the fuck? I’m starving here. I spent all day trying to figure out ways to keep this ship afloat. Ms. Sims suddenly landed a job that payed over 5 million dollars for nine months work? Out of the blue? How the fuck did that happen? Is she a Hollywood starlet?
Huh? Her tiny company, named Eclipse, landed a no-bid contract to manage logistics for our aeronautical security? It must have been quite a promising company, right? Well, no…
You know, even I have incorporation papers. What are my chances of landing a windfall like this? I mean all of you can supply a lot of word of mouth, and apparently there is no need to review my sordid background. Am I right?
But seriously, Ms. Sims now lives in a “$1.9 million stucco mansion with lofty ceilings on a hilltop, featuring sun-splashed palm trees and a circular driveway”. She has the Transportation Security Administration to thank for that.
More on the flip:
And when I say that she has the TSA to thank, I really really mean it:
But she made the most of it, and so did her employees.
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The auditors said $15 million in expenses submitted by Eclipse could not be substantiated. For example, auditors were able to find supporting documents for only $326,873 of the $5.8 million that Eclipse spent directly on accounting, administration, consulting, management and contract labor.
The auditors noted that Sims not only paid herself $5.4 million in compensation as “President/Owner” but also that she gave herself a $270,000 pension.
Holy Crap. This lady’s company loses money faster than the Federal Government. And where does she get off paying herself $5.4 mil?
Well, maybe because her little company got a lot of work:
The company, Eclipse Events Inc., was among the most important of the 168 subcontractors hired by prime contractor NCS Pearson Inc. The cost of the overall contract rose in less than a year to $741 million from $104 million, and federal auditors concluded that $303 million of that spending was unsubstantiated.
Are you writing all this down? Does it compute?
Let’s review.
A women living in a $1,000/month apartment, working as an event planner at the Four Seasons Hotel, receives a no-bid subcontract from the Federal Government that pays her $24 million dollars. Her job is to develop a nationwide recruitment and assessment system for passenger screeners at our airports. The woman was working out of her basement and didn’t form a corporation until two weeks after she received the subcontract.
Her company can’t account for 15 million dollars that she claimed as expenses.
But don’t worry:
We’ve never been so safe and so well led. Freedom is on the march.