Make government open for private audit (again)
I personally audited the Air Force connection with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in 2004 to see how much money federal prison camp labor was saving ...more »
I personally audited the Air Force connection with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in 2004 to see how much money federal prison camp labor was saving the government and to see if prison labor was in unfair (unlawful) completion with local labor.
In the Air Force Budget I found the lease fees paid by the BOP to the Air Force and found the BOP was paying the Air Force $6,000,000 per year in rent. This was off the charts on how much I suspected it to be. So, I asked for a copy of the lease from the Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act. To my surprise I found the real lease was $6,000 per year.
I then reviewed the Air Force budget and found that the data entered in the Air Force budget was not entered in thousands as the budget showed. So, a $5,000 dollar lease looked like $5,000,000 in the Air Force budget.
When I noticed this problem and reported it the Air Force budget was removed from public view and classified.
Why was this important? The Military leases tons of property to banks, restaurants, you name it, it is probably there on the bases around the world. With three zeros added to the income statement it did not look like the Air Force was spending as much as they really were spending when adding to the expense report of the budget.
The military expenditure was hundreds of Billions of dollars off. They were spending far more than reported or authorized by congress.
To my knowledge this problem has never been fixed to date.
It was "classified" and hidden by the Air Force.
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