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NASA Contractor Fraud
Punk Walrus writes "AP New is reporting that NASA has been defrauded dozens of times with things like faulty parts for the International Space Station or even the theft of moon rocks. Just in the last year, NASA contractors and even some of its own employees (more than 50 individuals and nearly three dozen instances) have cost NASA a small chunk out of their $14.8 billion budget. In one case, a NASA contract worker pleaded guilty to accepting $27,000 worth of collect telephone calls from prison inmates, and her company billed the cost to the Hubble Space Telescope program. Remember when Opus on Bloom County wanted to build a satellite Shield of dollar bills around the earth's orbit? Now it doesn't seem so funny anymore."
That a company so high in technology and intended to deal with the new frontiers of space and science cannot even deal with blatant fraud and rampant idiocy?
What have they got, a few hundred scientists at $100/hr each and a then backroom accountant and token lawyers that can't even save the company several thousand buckazoids (anyone get this reference) in fraud?