Wyoming house big enough to house 2000 corporations?

Two companies incorporated at a little house in Cheyenne, Wyoming, won Pentagon contracts after their owner took advantage of the state’s liberal incorporation laws to create the firms using an alias, and then represented them as minority-owned to win favorable treatment as a military supplier…

A Reuters investigation has found that more than 2,000 companies are registered at 2710 Thomes Avenue in Cheyenne, the headquarters for Wyoming Corporate Services, a business incorporation company that specializes in corporate anonymity…

A Reuters review of federal contracting databases found nine firms registered at 2710 Thomes Avenue have been awarded 93 contracts worth more than $1.6 million by a half dozen government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

More than 90 percent of the contracts were awarded by the Department of Defense…

In January, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) banned Eagle Logistic Solutions and Eagle Logistics Aerospace from selling components to the Pentagon for three years. The ban came after investigators found the firms, and their owners, had knowingly supplied air and fluid-filtering kits for military tractor-trailers between 2001 and 2005 that were reverse-engineered in Turkey to look like they were made by Parker Hannifin, the required manufacturer…

The companies were created by Atilla C. Kan, an employee of another Pentagon supplier called New York Machinery. DLA records, Wyoming incorporation data, and documents submitted by an attorney for New York Machinery in a settlement agreement in a separate federal criminal lawsuit show Kan formed the companies in Wyoming under the name John Ryan. He later used the alias, and a description of the companies as “minority-owned,” “woman-owned” and “Hispanic-owned,” when applying to supply military parts, the documents show.

BTW – I wandered through LinkedIn and Gerald Pitts – president of Wyoming Corporate Services – has almost 40 corporate entities other than the corporate maildrop on Thomes Avenue. Lovely little town, Cheyenne — even though they’re challenging the Cayman Islands for the number of sleazy businesses they house.




  1. LibertyLover says:

    If the DoD didn’t have such a large budget, companies like this wouldn’t be able to do what they do.

    Remove the incentive. Remove the money.

  2. Dallas says:

    Hmm? Pentagon’s $800 BILLION budget (each year and growing) might be wasteful?

    The religo-sheepe demand Congress debate the real waste in government : the 3% of Planned Parenthood budget of $70M.

  3. deowll says:

    Just because Planned Parenthood makes big donations to liberal Democrats hardly means it is the only organization capable of providing health care for women. Get over it.

    Companies have been using the minority con to get contracts that should have gone to others since I was a youngster and very little has been done to stop it.

    I’m wondering why a single company had to make that part. Please notice they did not say the part was defective. Might be a ~valid reason like patent or a not so valid reason like pay offs but please note that it doesn’t seem to have been made in the US at any point in time.

    That is what hacks me off. We can’t go to war against many countries because they sell us parts our military has to have to operate. I think we are becoming a joke as a super power. A bunch of wasteful idiots with a super power military bought/manufactured off shore and paid for with borrowed money. What a hoot!

  4. msbpodcast says:

    In # 2, Dallas said: religo-sheepe

    What the fuck is (or are,) religo-sheepe.

    I wish people would stop being clever with words, because they’re not clever enough. Shakespeare, you’re not, okay.

    In #3, deowll said: I think we are becoming a joke as a super power. A bunch of wasteful idiots with a super power military bought/manufactured off shore and paid for with borrowed money. What a hoot!

    They’re called allies.

    Peace only happens when everybody’s hands are stuffed too deeply in each other’s pockets to wave a weapon around.

  5. Skeptic says:

    #3, Deowll, “We can’t go to war against many countries because they sell us parts our military has to have to operate.”

    Maybe that’s a bonus… trust between nations might avoid such catastrophes as war. What countries would you want to go to war with, that are making some of your defense parts?

  6. sargasso_c says:

    Wyoming, like The Cayman Islands?

  7. rcool says:

    Why don’t the government agencies do a bit more research to determine the validity of companies, even if it’s only Google Maps street view as a start?

  8. MikeN says:

    >the real waste in government : the 3% of Planned Parenthood budget of $70M.

    This is funny coming from people who focus so much time on campaign finance and Citizens United. Total amount spent, about 1/1000 of the federal budget.

  9. Dallas says:

    #3 Just because Planned Parenthood makes big donations to liberal Democrats hardly means it is the only organization capable of providing health care for women. Get over it.

    That’s not the point. The point being the BUDGET AGREEMENT gets held hostage because the voting religo-sheep disagree with $2.1M of Planned Parenthood dollars toward abortion. Are you outraged yet or not so much?

    #4 What the fuck is (or are,) religo-sheepe.
    Let me help. Religo-sheep are a vocal and voting group of religious sheeple. They demand their government representative prioritize their time, energy and financial influence in government to satisfy their interpretation of bible scripture regardless of what our laws say about separation of church and state.

    #8 This is funny coming from people who focus so much time on campaign finance

    I don’t see it funny at all. Are you not outraged that sessions of COngress devoted to balanced budget are held up because of $2M when BILLIONS are wasted elsewhere. When you budget, do you look at big ticket items or whether you should get that peanut topping on that yogurt?

  10. Mr. Fusion says:

    #9, Dallas,

    Sorry, but your logic is way over the morans’ heads. You need to blame Obama for them not to get their lacy panties in a knot.

    This is a case of blatant fraud. Prosecute the liars and be wiser next time.

  11. deowll says:

    #5 China I don’t believe we actually call them allies. They are definitely saber rattling and even making open threats. It is there clear intent to become the super power and as they do they intend to shove people around. We are so dependent on them it’s a bad joke militarily and for just about everything else.

    I will concede that they have valid interests in Libya that we are messing with and I don’t see our national interests being advanced by our actions relating to Libya.

    The part in question was from Turkey. Not so sure how we stand with them either. In fact the Obama admin seems to have shaky relations with about everybody.

    My bad so far as I know Canada is not angry at us yet but China is definitely starting to compete for oil from Canada.

    One of the issues not addressed is that most people in Egypt and Libya are good solid Muslims with an agenda that isn’t going to tolerate much of western culture.

    According to some poles about 85% of the population of Egypt would be in favor of killing anyone who expressed the views expressed by some of the posters on this web site.

  12. Floyd says:

    deowll: I think you mean “polls”, not “Poles.”
    Very few Poles live in Egypt.

  13. noname says:

    Ok, this isn’t post related, but; how do you suggest posting?

    Take a look at this, it’s interesting and controversial.

    Darren Murph posting on engadget: OnLive CEO reveals way to topple Shannon’s Law

  14. rick says:

    We didn’t listen to President Isenhour’s warning about the Military Industrial Complex.

  15. foobar says:

    $1.6 million is chump change.

  16. soundwash says:

    Only 2?? HA!

    -fluff piece

    -s

  17. Cap'nKangaroo says:

    #3 deowll said “..because Planned Parenthood makes big donations..”

    How big is big? I looked up on Opensecrets.org and learned that PP contributed roughly $250,000 to Federal candidates in the 2010 election cycle. For comparison, the NRA in the same cycle contributed $1,250,000. The National Assoc. of Realtors contributed nearly $4,000,000.

  18. morramm says:

    america the new den of thieves

  19. Anonymous says:

    Cheyenne, Wyoming it ain’t nothin’ like Miami Florida, or Hollywood California.

    …or Washington!!!

    This is small potatoes. I mean, $1.2 million in bad contracts? Did I read that right? Million with a “M” in U.S. dollars? That’s peanuts! I bet your local (nearby) city’s public parks superintendent gets paid more and is possibly even the brother of the mayor or something too. $1.2 million isn’t even even within error tolerances when calculating the national debt.

    Don’t get me wrong! This story is interesting but so totally under anyone’s radar (once it drops out of the headlines) that I bet no one even sees the inside of a police holding cell. And THAT’S WHAT’S WRONG WITH AMERICA!!!

  20. Cap'nKangaroo says:

    #3 deowll said

    “That is what hacks me off. We can’t go to war against many countries because they sell us parts our military has to have to operate. I think we are becoming a joke as a super power. A bunch of wasteful idiots with a super power military bought/manufactured off shore and paid for with borrowed money. What a hoot!”

    and in post #12 deowll says “The part in question was from Turkey”

    The counterfeit part was reverse-engineered in Turkey and was most likely made there.

    The REAL part, the part that the DoD thought they were buying, is made by Parker Hannifin. This company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PH” and is based in Cleveland, Ohio. I do not know with certainty but I am willing to bet the parts the Dept. of Defense actually wanted are made here in the US of A.

  21. ECA says:

    iN THE PAST FEW YEARS,
    We have to wonder HOW some of this has happened.
    Could it be that the regulators are not sending out LIVE persons to evaluate certain things?? or have those jobs fallen by the WAGE CUTS?

    Is our government as bad as the Corps?
    They CUT everything at the bottom, and Float away in Ambivalence, THINKING things are getting done?
    Is it TIME to cut a FEW wages at the TOP? so we can PAY those few at the bottom that InSPECT and WATCH what NEEDS to be.

  22. admfubar says:

    “Atilla C. Kan,”

    Atilla The Con!!

    HAR!!!!

  23. W. W. Winkie says:

    Say, chum! I’ve got an idea! Instead of going halfway around the world to field-test our missiles and smart bombs, why don’t we just go to Wyoming?

    CAN that new missile take out one house without killing the neighbors, as promised in its specs? Let’s FIND OUT.

    Save oil. Start killing the scumbags that are already HERE.

    Oooooh, what’s that big building with the dome on it?

  24. Glenn E. says:

    Apparently if you’re a high school grad, whose trying to get some job that pays better than a Jack-in-the-Box job. And you apply for military service, as most high schools encourage you to do, because the gov. says they must. The military then performs a security check on your ass. To make sure you’re not some commie, I guess. And they do this for thousands of new personnel, every year. So why the hell can’t the DoD be bother to vet these phony corporations, before channeling billions to them. Probably because even the legit corps would have problems justifying what they charge, and how they do business. So a blind eye is turned towards all, in order to protect the fattest of them.

  25. Rick says:

    We once lost an F-117 because of a rudder failure in flight. Makes you wonder if the bolts holding it on were chinese…


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