Have you ever wondered why it takes so long and cost
so much to implement and complete a government funded infrastructure
project? Contractors not only deal with
the hassle of overcoming mountains of bureaucratic red tape, corrupt
politicians and lawsuits by environmental groups, they also have to comply with
political correctness.
A Monroe, NC business owner pleaded guilty to conspiracy
and money laundering charges to federal prosecutors because his company wasn’t
a minority owned business. And as you
can expect, a company that builds roads needs government contracts. Boggs Paving Company submitted the lowest
bid, but the owner didn’t have a vagina or the right skin color. Now, he’s going to jail.
According to the federal indictment,
Boggs and his co-defendants conspired to get federal and state contracts by
claiming a minority-owned small business would do part of the work. Under state
contracting rules, 15 percent of work on such projects must be completed by
minority or female-owned companies.
Prosecutors say millions in payments to a bank account in the
name of Styx Cuthbertson Trucking were later funneled back to Boggs Paving. To
aid the fraud, magnetic decals for Cuthbertson covered the Boggs logo on trucks
at the construction sites.
The Monroe expressway project was not included in the federal
indictment, but records obtained by AP show that Monroe Bypass Constructors
included Styx Cuthbertson Trucking on the 2011 list of minority contractors it
submitted as part of its winning bid.
Charbonneau said Cuthbertson was removed from the state-approved
list of minority contractors on the project.
“As with all major construction projects, NCDOT publicly
advertised this project and awarded this project to the lowest bidder,”
Charbonneau said. “It was not awarded through fraud.”
If you’re a white male business owner, you’d better
have an understanding that your kind is persona non grata. However, you could pull a Bruce Jenner and
become a woman or an inverse Michael Jackson by darkening your skin and perming
your hair. I hear this transformation is
becoming all the rave.
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