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List of Contractors That Could be Defunded as a Result of Anti-ACORN Bill

Last week, the House inadvertently took a large step forward in protecting taxpayers from misbehaving contractors. The House passed the "Student Aid" bill (H.R. 3221) that also included a ban on entities receiving any federal contracts or grants if they have "filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency." Although intended to restrict ACORN, a nationwide community support organization, the language could be interpreted to cover all federal contractors and grantees.

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Last week, the House inadvertently took a large step forward in protecting taxpayers from misbehaving contractors. The House passed the "Student Aid" bill (H.R. 3221) that also included a ban on entities receiving any federal contracts or grants if they have "filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency." Although intended to restrict ACORN, a nationwide community support organization, the language could be interpreted to cover all federal contractors and grantees.

POGO's Federal Contractor Misconduct Database compiles instances of misconduct for the top contractors that have together received over $260 billion in FY 2007. Those same contractors have racked up over 750 instances of misconduct and paid over $27 billion in fines or penalties since 1995. A survey of that data shows that 62 federal contractors (listed below) have been involved in instances that might prohibit them from receiving future federal funds if the "Defund ACORN Act" becomes law.

 ContractorInstances of Misconduct (Since 1995)Misconduct $ Since (1995)
1 Alliant Techsystems Inc. 2$8.3 m
2 AmerisourceBergen 8$36.1 m
3 Armor Holdings, Inc. 3$49.4 m
4 AT&T 7$15.3 m
5 BAE Systems 3$1.3 m
6 Battelle Memorial Inst. 2$0.6 m
7 Bearing Point 6$135.7 m
8 Bechtel Corp. 15$359.6 m
9 Blackwater USA 2$0
10 Boeing Co. 31$1.5 b
11 Booz Allen Hamilton 1$3.4 m
12 BP P.L.C. 27$1.3 b
13 California Institute of Tech. 1$0
14 Canadian Commercial Corp. 1$6.0 m
15 Cardinal Health, Inc. 3$635 m
16 ChevronTexaco Corp. 17$433 m
17 Corrections Corp. of America 5$59.5 m
18 CSC 5$43 m
19 Daimler AG 9$443.2 m
20 Dell, Inc. 9$8.6 m
21 DRS Technologies, Inc. 2$10 m
22 DynCorp International Inc. 4$0.8 m
23 Electronic Data Systems 7$297.4 m
24 Exxon Mobil 39$2.3 b
25 FedEx Corp. 18$120.2 m
26 Fluor Corp. 22$186.4 m
27 Force Protection, Inc. 1$1.9 .
28 G4S P.L.C. 14$53 m
29 General Dynamics 9$63.2 m
30 General Electric 32$37.4 m
31 GlaxoSmithKline 16$4.3 b
32 GTSI Corp. 1$0.4 m
33 Halliburton 7$755.4 m
34 Harris Corp. 3$1.6 m
35 Health Net, Inc. 16$687.1 m
36 Hewlett-Packard Co. 4$204.8 m
37 Honeywell International Inc. 30$641.2 m
38 Humana 10$129.7 m
39 IBM Corporation 10$823.6 m
40 Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. 2$37.5 m
41 Johns Hopkins Univ. 4$4.6 m
42 KBR 18$103 m
43 L-3 Communications 5$41.3 m
44 Lockheed Martin 50$577.2 m
45 McKesson 8$1.36 b
46 Merck & Co., Inc. 10$5.8 b
47 Northrop Grumman 27$790.4 m
48 Parsons Corp. 2$3.2 m
49 Raytheon Co. 17$475.8 m
50 Royal Dutch Shell PLC 20$1.1 b
51 SAIC 10$14.5 m
52 Sanofi-Aventis 5$289.9 m
53 Shaw Group 3$12.9 m
54 SRA International 1$0
55 Stewart & Stevenson Services 1$7.0 m
56 Textron, Inc. 9$22.3 m
57 Unisys Corporation 5$3.9 m
58 United Space Alliance 1$0
59 Univ. of California 25$69.3 m
60 Univ. of Chicago 4$22.7 m
61 UT-Battelle LLC 3$0.3 m
62 UTC 13$383.0 m 

 

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