Thread by @DawsonSField

One of the unsung triumphs of the Trump Admin is the application of #BigData to detecting fraud & crime.
I suspect that is what happened here after a 22-year crime spree against the military acquisition system comes to an end.
#ButNothingsHappening

https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/1189903767162015745

Seems our alleged criminal spent 22-years winning bids to provide parts & supplies to the US military by being the low bidder. Of course he was the low bidder because his companies didn't exist & didn't manufacture the parts.
He just bought them from China & other places...

Then sent the substandard parts & the military paid up prior to testing if the parts met the standards of the contracts. When they didn't, they would reject the parts, but he would close up the shell companies when they came to collect. FOR 22 YEARS!

Often waiting up to 5 years to even attempt to notify him that his parts failed & he had to repay them. Incompetence in so many ways.
As I said in the beginning, I suspect they put some big data to use to identify the trends in contract failures to investigate.

It is even possible that these parts put members of our military at risk. One failed batch of components was identified as having the potential to damage the rotors of helicopters in flight, which can easily cost the lives of everyone on the bird.

But now that he got away with it for 22 years, his lawyers argue he is too old to go to jail in his 80s.
I find it hard to find any sympathy for him or the military bureaucrats who allowed this dysfunctional system for so many decades.