The Department of Defense looked into allegations regarding C-17 cargo planes

Boeing is not in trouble for money laundering, but the U.S. military is accusing the planemaker of some fiscal funny business involving cleaning supplies. An audit released by the Department of Defense on Tuesday found that the company was overcharging the government for spare soap dispensers on C-17 cargo planes.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•1 month ago

    Apparently reasonable is 20 for 9 million, but unreasonable is 4.3m for 9.

    The article makes no sense with its numbers, and all claimed costs are out of this world. It’s a soap dispenser. It should be no more than $500.

    • Nougat
      24•1 month ago

      Those are for “various spare parts,” where $9M was paid for “some number” of 20 kinds of parts, and $4.3M was paid for “some number” of 9 kinds of parts. And admittedly, $150,000 was what was paid for an unknown number of spare soap dispensers.

      So we don’t really know how much a single soap dispenser cost, or how overpriced it was.