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Schwartz was fired from TRW, but later submitted a report on the matter to Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Calif.) and to Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who jointly commissioned the investigation of the matter by the GAO in 2000. The case was headed by Ghoshroy, then at the GAO...
Former Kennedy School of Government fellow Subrata Ghoshroy has submitted allegations of falsified reports and investigations against the Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he served as a defense analyst...
According to Ghoshroy, the GAO purposefully ignored evidence suggesting that the military contractors involved in developing this missile defense system skewed data, and falsely stated that the contractors had revealed the failures of the system to the government...
...Fixing the problem isn't apparently that easy, either. The GAO report noted that federal law "does not require GSA contracting officers to examine tax debt when awarding contracts." And even if a contracting officer wanted to check the tax status of a vendor he'd have a difficult time doing so because federal law also restricts his access to IRS tax records, according to the GAO...
...wonder that the GAO uncovered similar problems only two years ago. The same congressional watchdogs found over 27,000 defense contractors doing business with the Pentagon that owed $3 billion in back taxes. Since that report in 2004, the Pentagon and other federal agencies have increased the amount of back taxes recovered from contractors by over 600%, according to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, chairman of the Investigations Subcommittee. A GSA spokesman says his agency "takes the issue of unpaid contractor taxes very seriously and all federal contractors should be held to high standards." He said GSA is working...