NASA Admits to Selling Discount Fuel to Google Execs
Source: NBC Bay Area
NASA now acknowledges what NBC Bay Area's Investigative Team first uncovered last year--that the government agency has been effectively giving a price break on jet fuel to a private company.
In a letter to an Iowa senator, NASAs associate administrator for legislative and intergovernmental affairs admits the agency was selling jet fuel at below market rates to H2-11, a company owned by the founders of Google.
Senator Chuck Grassley says he received the letter on Thursday although it's dated Feb. 24. In the letter, NASA's Seth Statler writes, in light of the concerns expressed with those agreements, NASA has reviewed its pricing approach and
is now charging a market rate for aviation fuel at Ames research center.
... According to the inspector generals report, the discount fuel saved Googles principals between $3.3 million and $5.3 million since H2-11 was able to purchase the taxpayer subsidized fuel at Ames.
Read more: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/NASA-Admits-to-Selling-Discount-Fuel-to-Google-Execs-248922181.html
yorgatron
(2,289 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)getting away with stuff that should or used to be illegal..back in those old days when we had laws! Or at least people at least worried about getting caught for evil deeds.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Make both the company that received the discount fuel the the ass who OK'd the sale, repay the government for what the company saved, the 5.3 million number, plus another million in fines. Make it know that shit like this is going to cost those involved dearly when they get caught!
24601
(3,940 posts)collect those taxes from our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors & Airmen. So what's wrong with this picture?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)It should be the other way around, companies giving discounts to NASA.
tinrobot
(10,848 posts)That's just obscene.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...If only some pesky asshole had kept his mouth shut, everybody'd have had a nice job waiting for them one day.
Everybody connected, that is.
hatrack
(59,439 posts)Unbelievable.