January 14, 2005

"Feds Find Millions Wasted On Border Camera System"

A Team 7 Investigation into a defective camera surveillance system along the U.S.-Canadian border has sparked a massive federal probe.

Now, the results are in: Auditors say taxpayers paid millions of dollars for "phantom" cameras, missing parts and fraudulent repair bills...

According to the federal probe, straight north of Seattle, taxpayers paid for 36 remote video camera sites, but only 32 actually exist. Just that is $1 million in over-billing...

...KIRO Team 7 Investigators were also the first to expose how a Texas congressman's daughter grabbed a $200 million no-bid contract to install the camera surveillance systems first in Blaine, then nationwide...

That congressman is Sylvester Reyes (D-TX). There's more on his daughter's company here.

Posted to Immigration2005a at January 14, 2005 12:16 PM

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