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.
#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.
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.
“Atilla C. Kan,”
Atilla The Con!!
HAR!!!!
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?
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.
We once lost an F-117 because of a rudder failure in flight. Makes you wonder if the bolts holding it on were chinese…