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Records show firm with Beshear ties won last-day contract
Associated Press / WKYT ^ | 2/24/2016

Posted on 02/28/2016 10:19:11 PM PST by Republican Wildcat

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Records have revealed that on its last day in office, Kentucky's Steve Beshear administration awarded a no-bid contract of about $3 million to a technology company that retains the husband of one of Beshear's top officials as a consultant and employs one of Beshear's former officials as a lobbyist.

Citing records it obtained under the Kentucky Open Records Act, The Courier-Journal reports that on Dec. 7 the administration awarded a contract to SAS Institute of Cary, North Carolina to extend work that SAS was doing in analyzing data to detect fraud in billings made to Medicaid and other state programs.

(Excerpt) Read more at wkyt.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Kentucky; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: abortion; beshear; cary; corruption; deathpanels; kentucky; medicaid; northcarolina; obamacare; sasinstitute; stevebeshear; zerocare

1 posted on 02/28/2016 10:19:11 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: ChildOfThe60s

ping


2 posted on 02/28/2016 10:20:52 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

How convenient.


3 posted on 02/28/2016 10:23:48 PM PST by alicewonders
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To: Republican Wildcat

Democrat


4 posted on 02/28/2016 10:42:01 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (My first choice is Trump 4 economics and Not a Politician . Cruz to endorse Rubio Stay Home)
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To: Republican Wildcat
How ironic.

Fraud involved in a contract to detect fraud.

Only in politics!

5 posted on 02/28/2016 10:50:36 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Republican Wildcat

A decent investigator will find many many more such contracts. This is why Andy Beshear is AG—who is going to prosecute?


6 posted on 02/29/2016 1:28:56 AM PST by browniexyz
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To: Republican Wildcat

Democrat business as usual down in the hollers of Frankfurt.


7 posted on 02/29/2016 6:56:50 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: browniexyz

Exactly...such a shame that he won.

And Bevin has to keep looking over his shoulder with a partisan Democrat AG.


8 posted on 02/29/2016 4:51:23 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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