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Another Wikileaks release: Corruption traced back to White House

Sunday, 13 December 2015 5:05 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 13 December 2015 8:15 AM ]

SourceAmerica is accused of steering contracts to companies with ties to the organization's board members.

WikiLeaks has published 30 hours of secret tapes and transcripts at the heart of the AbilityOne/SourceAmerica scandal.

Thirteen Presidential Appointees (ten Obama, three Bush) are embroiled in a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal being probed by the US Department of Justice and four Inspector Generals.

The appointees oversaw the federal government’s $3 billion a year “AbilityOne” program which was meant to pay for the employment of more than 50,000 disabled people -- the largest such program in the United States.

Most of the labor was pushed to the military sector, including Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin & Boeing--which are also “patrons” of Source America. In essence, the disabled were robbed from their jobs.

This is part one of a two-part series, which first takes a look at this fraud that has taken place. In part 2, government is looked at, including programs like reconstruction of Afghanistan, or the Pentagon’s $1.5 Trillion Jet.

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