From USA Today comes word of how the Pentagon awarded a contract for work in Afghanistan to a company that owed $4 million in taxes.
Carper and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., had urged the Pentagon to garnish federal payments made to contractors if they had overdue taxes. They had cited a Feb. 29 USA TODAY report about the growth in Pentagon spending on information operations or propaganda programs. The article detailed how two owners of Leonie Industries, the Pentagon’s largest such contractor in Afghanistan, owed more than $4 million in unpaid federal taxes.
The owners, the sister-brother team of Rema DuPont and Camille Chidiac, repaid their taxes in late March, according to documents provided by Gar Smith, a spokesman for Leonie Industries.
Speaking of back taxes, the Hollywood Reporter writes here about the Hollywood celebrities who owe back taxes to the state of California. The state has a big problem with people not paying. In total, about 500 people owe California $233 million.
