re: DOGE kills $18M/mo scam in San Antonio - migrant shelter 'nonprofit' was empty

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As such, you cannot arrest the CEO. That sounds like facism.

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I never advocated arresting anyone. Damn. LOL

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I’m not defending the contract.

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My apologies (no sarcasm).

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If you were the CEO, you’d realize that you could do the job for much less than the government had agreed to pay, and you’d send the money back?

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Correct. the BILLIONS went somewhere. Someone had to funnel that money to someone else. That is what I'm trying to say.

A good CEO would say "we have too many funds for what this is supposed to be" and either return money or lower the budget the next year. That's all I'm saying.

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A good CEO would say "we have too many funds for what this is supposed to be" and either return money or lower the budget the next year.

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In my career I’ve never come across this kind of CEO.

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Lock the Chairman of that non-profit up for a while.

You can’t lock up a guy for executing, and collecting revenues, on a legal contract. It is wasteful government spending, but is legal.

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So, they recieve the money and that's the end of their repsonsibility in the transaction? They don't have to actually do what the grant is for? That may very well be how that has worked, and it looks like that is the case for a lot of them. You don't see the problem in that, do you?

2024 rookie

So the explanation from Endeavor isn't *totally* without merit (please keep reading!). If they were being paid to keep the place open for overflow, the fact that it is empty really isn't on them, it's on the Dept of HHS. It's a *little* like saying you wasted money on an emergency generator, because it hasn't been used for six months.

But I still smell a rat. $18M a MONTH, to keep 3,000 beds? That is $200 a day, per bed, just to let them sit on standby? No food bills, little in the way of housekeeping,minimal utility bills, etc. I can get a decently nice hotel room for $200/night. An overflow bed should be more like an Army barracks or hostel or something, not a nice hotel room.

I sure hope they track the money path. People need to go to jail.

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Are those dollars present or have they disappeared?

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We all know the answer to that. Pucker factor is extremely high at this Endeavor operation.

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Why is Pam Bondi chasing a fake Epstein list instead of going after these crooks?

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because that's the red meat that gets mouth breathers riled up and engaged

Feel like 18M a month of tax payer money being spent is plenty meaty.

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You can’t lock up a guy for executing, and collecting revenues, on a legal contract. It is wasteful government spending, but is legal.

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Legalities may be in question. Two of the contract awards were sole source non competitive.

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You can’t lock up a guy for executing, and collecting revenues, on a legal contract. It is wasteful government spending, but is legal.

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Maybe someone more familiar with Government contracts can chime in, because I really wonder.

My MegaCorp sold communications equipment to the Govt. I recall, long, long ago, when I first started, and when micro-controllers were first being used in portable electronics. We had a line of products that had a number of features built in, but they could be enabled/disabled by just setting some memory bits in the factory. So set the bit to enable feature X, and you charge more for that device, etc.

There was serious questions if we could sell those to the Govt in that form, the idea being we would charge $500 for one device, and $600 for another, when they had the exact same components in them, our costs were the same - was that 'cheating'?

So maybe these contracts have (or are supposed to have), some clauses about what can be passed on as cost from the supplier? I dunno.