The Gret Stet’s Legislative Auditor’s Office just released an audit of travel monies paid to ICF for travel expenses… why am I not fucking surprised at the damn results?
“The state has paid the private contractor running Louisiana’s Road Home program $770,000 more for travel expenses than its actual travel costs so far, according to a review of the expenses by the state Legislative Auditor’s Office.
The audit, released Monday, said the state has paid ICF International Inc. $770,449 more for travel than its estimated costs for the travel of ICF employees and Road Home subcontractors from October through March 31.”
And ICF’s answer?
“ICF officials said that over the life of the three-year contract their travel costs could be larger than the $19 million it will be paid for travel by the state. They said they developed the travel budget in compliance with federal travel reimbursement standards.
“Given the high level of uncertainty in what the actual travel cost would be for such a large and dynamic Program, and over a nearly three-year period, the fixed-price nature of the arrangement presented high financial risk to ICF,” the company said in a statement responding to the audit.”
Round up these carpetbagging Virgina hams and send their asses back to an orbit around the Beltway. Freakin’ ICF earned less than $50M per year prior to taking on the Road Home Program, they’ve done a lousy job doing it, and they’re carving out more profit based on “possible travel expenses”? Travel to where you freakin’ money pigs? Are you going to take separate flights to visit each of the exiles who aren’t home so they can get their grants? No mooks, you will never do that.
Is this how you were able to “reward” your executives with large bonuses when all you’ve done as an administrator is screw the Program up? When you have strung out so many for so long in getting their Block Grants given by Congress for those victims of the Federal Flood of our City? (Like the 11 months we’ve been waiting to fix our house under this Program?)
Where is the Humanity in these Virgina fucks? How can they sleep at night? (Oops… forgot: have 10 Scotch & Sodas, take the Penial Recovery drug, and drop a sleeping pill. This way you can do your old lady for all of 3 to 8 Minutes, and then just roll over and enjoy the sleep of the unfairly enriched Carpetbag crowd)
Oh to Hell with giving these Carpetbabbers travel fare back to Old Vir-”ginny”.
Let’s hang these mooks, fight for our Reparations, and commence with secession from a culture that breeds these kinds of demons.
Sinn Fein!
As a Virginian, I’m slightly offended that you’re picking on our state because of ICF’s bad behavior. ICf deserves all the epithets you can hurl at them, without question. Carpetbaggers, yes. Over-paid CEO and others, yes. Especially adept at getting as much money out of the Feds as possible, without ever crossing the “illegal” line? Yes. But please stop blaming Virginny for them. They’re actually a Washington, DC firm that moved out to Virginia for the cheaped rent many years ago! So please call them “DC carpetbaggers,” which is really more true.
ádh mór ort for the recovery of your beautiful town,
Ann
Comment by Ann Gaothin — September 5, 2007 @ 8:22 am
What do you expect from a company that started this project while victims were still in the water fighting for their lives??? They saw these “refugees” as ICF called them, as merely an opportunity to fill the Executives pockets!
Comment by LOL! — August 20, 2008 @ 1:36 pm