@JamesOKeefeIII This is absolutely normal within government contracting. The US Government has regulated itself so a percentage of their business must go to 8(a) firms (small/disadvantaged business). So, when a large contract ends up in 8(a)-land, the big boys all go rushing to find an 8(a)

@JamesOKeefeIII HOW IS HE GETTING AWAY WITH THESE DISGUISES LOL

@JamesOKeefeIII They can’t outsource 80% of the contracted work! By law, the prime must execute 51% of the contract or hire. The company also has to have past performance doing the exact NAIC codes. And only a small percentage of the overall contracts for a given organization are able to go to

@JamesOKeefeIII The way to root out fraudsters in small business contracts is to only award contracts to businesses who can demonstrate some knowledge, history or experience in the actual industry they are seeking the contracts for. If they just popped up overnight, no office, no background, no

@JamesOKeefeIII Everyone in the federal government knows about the 8(a) scam. Outsourcing of the work is more like 99%.

@JamesOKeefeIII Honest question- Am I the only one not profiting from the federal government? I feel like the only one on earth PAYING the government. What am I doing wrong?

@JamesOKeefeIII This is hardly news. It has been going on since at least the early 80's, probably longer. Anyone who has worked in government contracting knows this. The big question would be how much of the 8(a) money ends up back in political campaigns. I would guess quite a bit.

@JamesOKeefeIII This is nothing new. And it is at every level. In Owings Mills MD we had a snow plow contractor … he lost his contract and it was given to a black guy. The black guy subcontracted the original guy (white guy) to do the work and the black guy just took a percentage. The new

@JamesOKeefeIII As a young man, I looked for grants to help start a business, but I wasn't the right race or gender. A few years later, I looked into government contracts, but again, I wasn't the right race or gender. I finally realized that nobody was going to help me. I could only rely on

@JamesOKeefeIII nah, the person who fell for this has to be mentally handicap.. 🤣🤣

@JamesOKeefeIII For those who don't know, a lot of times if a minority or woman owned business is within a certain percentage of the true lowest bidder they win the contract even though they weren't the lowest bidder.

@JamesOKeefeIII How? Your costume is so convincing!

@JamesOKeefeIII Regardless of what you think of this, you have to give credit to @JamesOKeefeIII for managing to scoop this with the dorkiest of disguises.

@JamesOKeefeIII 2) The firm holding my contract took 10% of all I earned as a pass-through fee. They did nothing but collect the fees. This is fraud in the making, and it is done all across the federal government. SBA is right in auditing all contracts to root out the fraud.

@JamesOKeefeIII In my industry it's fairly obvious that this is a common occurrence. Another fairy common way around this is that a white male will start a company and then suddenly, a few years down the road, his wife is 51% owner and "CEO" and they become a certified woman owned enterprise.

@JamesOKeefeIII James, there is no way I could have sat across from you and not lost it laughing. Your disguise is funny. Hopefully you had striped bell bottoms and platform shoes on too. Excellent work James. You are bringing back what investigative journalism once was.

@JamesOKeefeIII DOGE,?? Okeefe minority contracts that Caucasian citizens are banned from bidding on. Discrimination against the American People. Imigrants now have non compete billion dollar US contracts. Freedom. Americans want their country back 🇺🇲 DOGE this needs to be fixed. Thank You

@JamesOKeefeIII This is why they need to just get rid of the minority owned status b*******

@JamesOKeefeIII I worked for a DOD contractor in the 90's. It was 'owned' by a Native American. But he had nothing to do with the business, he was brought on board solely to get the contracts. While he technically owned 51% of the company, the executive compensation contracts (for the real

@JamesOKeefeIII O'Keefe needs to be running the DOJ at this point.

@JamesOKeefeIII Scammers jumping through window size government loopholes.

@JamesOKeefeIII My family was one of the largest private contractors for the federal government for more than a decade. The only thing that is inaccurate about this story, is that it is likely far more than $100B. Nearly all private contractors for the federal govt get their awards this way.

@JamesOKeefeIII Take a look at every native corporation in Alaska. Note all the work they do with Halliburton and Schlumberger, etc. etc..

@JamesOKeefeIII This is exactly what happens in South Africa... although it is not violating law, it is the law here!

@JamesOKeefeIII Even in a Dollar Tree disguise, they bragged about corruption to James. Some people need to feel untouchable. That’s how they get caught. It’s like a God complex has invaded their mind.

@JamesOKeefeIII Duh this type of special advantages has been going on for 50 yrs how do ppl not know this pull up government grants and contracts its blatant racism against white ppl funny thing is white ppl can just claim to be any minority they want and get those programs but they are honest

@JamesOKeefeIII 1) In the early 2000s, I had a services contract with GSA. I was unable to receive the contract because I did not meet the federal government's socioeconomic quotas. The GSA secured my services using an 8(a) firm. This firm signed the contract and then subcontracted the services

@JamesOKeefeIII That lady actually fell for that disguise?

@JamesOKeefeIII What is criminal is the government having laws and regulations establishing racial preferences.

@JamesOKeefeIII What a disguise

@JamesOKeefeIII The only real scandal here is that firms are being handed contracts because they are owned by minorities instead of based on quality of service and price

@JamesOKeefeIII That wig deserves to go go jail

@JamesOKeefeIII Pretty much SOP in DC If you’ve ever seen an 8A contract you knew this was happening … including all of the Federal Contracting Officers … but they filled their quota… Now do Hubzone 😉

@JamesOKeefeIII Of our 4.7 trillion dollar government budget, I have to wonder how much of it- in a dollar amount or a percentage- is just pure grift? I think we the people would be astounded and shocked at just how much money is siphoned off of our nation by virtually all comers. We are the

@JamesOKeefeIII That's a wild disguise @JamesOKeefeIII

@JamesOKeefeIII Everyone who works around Washington contracting knows this, surprised to hear that some people don’t. Minority contractors set up companies, get contracts without any questions, then google to find companies who can do the work.