{"id":697,"date":"2007-08-16T18:35:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T23:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=697"},"modified":"2007-08-16T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T23:35:09","slug":"bloombergcom-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/08\/bloombergcom-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg.com: Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601070&#038;sid=aY5OQ5xv9HR8\" >Bloomberg.com: Politics<\/a>:<br \/>\nPentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers (Update3)<br \/>\nBy Tony Capaccio<\/p>\n<p>Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) &#8212; A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of C&#38;D Distributors in Lexington, South Carolina &#8212; twin sisters &#8212; exploit<\/p>\n<p>FUCKERS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg.com: Politics: Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers (Update3) By Tony Capaccio Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) &#8212; A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/08\/bloombergcom-politics\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bloomberg.com: Politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}