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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
#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?
Wyoming, like The Cayman Islands?
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?
>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.
#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?
#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.
Wyoming, home of Dick Chaney.
#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.
deowll: I think you mean “polls”, not “Poles.”
Very few Poles live in Egypt.
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
We didn’t listen to President Isenhour’s warning about the Military Industrial Complex.
$1.6 million is chump change.
Only 2?? HA!
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#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.
america the new den of thieves
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!!!