{"id":45429,"date":"2013-06-26T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/probe-irs-contractor-won-up-to-500-million-in-questionable-bids\/45429\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:31:53","slug":"probe-irs-contractor-won-up-to-500-million-in-questionable-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/probe-irs-contractor-won-up-to-500-million-in-questionable-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe: IRS contractor won up to $500 million in questionable bids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nancy Cordes<\/strong>
\nCBS News<\/a>
\nJune 26, 2013<\/p>\n

The Internal Revenue Service got some more unwanted attention Tuesday, but not for targeting political groups. This time, a congressional investigation has revealed a technology contractor won questionable bids worth up to $500 million.<\/p>\n

Braulio Castillo began winning hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts with the IRS within months of founding his technology company Strong Castle in early 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve found the kind of wrongdoing that should have caused this contract to be cancelled,\u201d said Republican Darrell Issa, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, which investigated Castillo\u2019s rapid rise.<\/p>\n

They found that just before opening Strong Castle, Castillo filed for a “disability rating” with the Veterans Administration, citing a “foot injury he suffered in 1984” — 27 years ago — while playing sports at a military prep school.<\/p>\n

That rating enabled Castillo to register Strong Castle as a “service-disabled, veteran-owned small business,” eligible for preferential treatment in bidding competitions.<\/p>\n

“Understand — never served a day on active duty, went to a school at taxpayers’ expense and had a minor injury that didn’t keep him from going on to play college ball,” Issa said.<\/p>\n

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