Report: Friendship may have greased wheels for IRS contracts

The Hill ^ | 6/25/13 | Bernie Becker

[ruralvoter]

Investigation finds IRS official helped friend win $500 million in contracts.

An IRS official helped funnel work to a friend whose technology company received some $500 million in agency contracts, according to a new congressional investigation.

The House Oversight Committee found that Greg Roseman, the IRS’s deputy director for IT acquisition, “helped steer contracts” to Braulio Castillo, the chief executive of Strong Castle, “through back channels.”

According to the report, Roseman did not tell other IRS officials about his close relationship with Castillo, and didn’t recuse himself from the contract process when Strong Castle made a bid.

Strong Castle grew from a company with about $250,000 in annual revenues to an outfit with potentially a half billion dollars in IRS contracts, in the six months after Castillo purchased the company with his wife in January 2012.

[no-to-illegals]

yep, no firearms were involved.

[Vendome]

What!? No.... /s

[Hotlanta Mike]

Lemme guess, both libs right?

[kcvl]

Braulio is a member of the National Society of Hispanic MBA’s (NSHMBA) and was an honorary cast member for the MGM Grand Resort’s “Roar Yes to Success” Program, an educational outreach campaign for the Clark County (Nevada).

In 2012, under Braulio’s leadership, Strong Castle, Inc. (under former name Signet Computers, Inc.) was named the IRS Office of IT and Treasury Departmental Offices (Main Treasury) Small Business of the Year, which in turn led to the nomination and subsequent award for overall Treasury Small Business of the Year.

[no-to-illegals]

Think five or more.

[ratzoe]

Castillo was playing the Small Business game where he claimed to be Service-Disabled(foot injury from high school football(but played college football), Veteran Owned small business. Also, to move the company higher in ‘most favored nation’ status, his company was located in a hub-zone. SB firms are the darlings in govt contracting and full of crooks playing the system.