TV MEDIA REPORTS


See the TV News Reports at the top of the Sidebar below to the right, just below this links section....and click on the photos!

LEGAL CASES

  • John Fox & Clemon Williams vs. Kern High School District, Whistleblowing to the FBI Re: Garland Purchase Orders, Bakersfield, California, 2013
  • GSA vs. Tremco, Qui Tam Suit, 2013
  • Los Angeles vs. Garland, Re: Bid Collusion, Racketeering, etc., Los Angeles, California, About 1997
  • Quality Tile Roofing vs. Tremco Roofing, Re: False Fraud Charges leveled at Tremco Certified Contractor for not bidding Tremco products at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Boise, Idaho, About 1997

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Garland PO's in California's Largest High School District in the News

Kern High School District's has had Managers involving the District in the Purchasing side of the "scam" - and now their local press in Bakersfield has caught on.

What were they doing?

Managers allowed purchase orders from 2002 on to one manufacturer, using broken-up installation contracts solely to another company.

What prompted the newspaper report yesterday?

Three managers protesting the activities were fired late last October, after detailing to authorities the alleged corruption. 

They have now filed whistleblowing charges, for being fired for going to the FBI.

The first newspaper report is at:
http://www.bakersfield.com/news/local/x43955892/KHSD-workers-allege-being-fired-for-whistleblowing?utm_source=widget_56&utm_medium=photo_entries_teaser_widget&utm_campaign=synapse

Three weeks prior to their firing, one of the managers named by these gentlemen as being involved in allowing Garland products wrote to me off this blog, and denied the allegations. 

The only way he could have gotten the information that he had been so named was a leak from the California Legislative Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review. 

The post from last year detailing the years of $200,000 a year purchase orders to Garland from Kern High School District are at:
http://schoolroofingscam.blogspot.com/2010/07/garland-roofing-products-bought.html

And you may ask:
Is this kind of "Purchasing" of fire-rated roofing products in schools an aberration, or are there more such problems in California?

So far, we hear of $500,000 Purchase Orders to one of the known companies involved, in Burlingame, CA, right across the freeway from the San Francisco Airport.....

More to come, will post here.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

California: Hell-Bent on Suicide

Congratulations to yet another Committee at the State of California Legislature.

You have now committed suicide for Californians with regards to public construction dollars, the state's rating, future and overall health, safety and welfare of the public.

Or maybe you are so unqualified to understand that it completely escaped your minds.....

What school of economics did you go to?  Or has the spicket of public works dollars feathering private nests gone on so long you have absolutely no conscience left?

For those who don't know, witnesses described what happened when AB 1342 tried to go through the "Budget and Finance" Committee.  The Chairperson came into the meeting, declaring they weren't going to vote for the national standard for competitive bidding practices, and the meeting became a total joke.

How much did that cost you, Garland?
You really have lost your minds, California.  This is below dumb and/or ignorant - it's truly, truly stupid - and makes you look it to thousands in the roofing industry and associated professions that "get it". 

Congratulations on sealing the deal of becoming a third-world country.

You can see the history of the bill here:
http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/Bills/AB_1342/20112012/