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kaiser soze
04-14-2008, 10:05 AM
Wow...talk about skirting separation of church and state. This is a huge scam...religion will always be a business but this is beyond spirituality!

It is time to remove their tax exempt status and freeze all contracts...no ifs, ands, or buts. STOP SUPER CHURCHES NOW!!!

Apr 12, 2008 (McClatchy Newspapers - McClatchy-Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- -- American taxpayers have unwittingly helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million loan from the federal government and $1.2 million in military contracts.

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1354729

A large portion of the awards were preferential no-bid or "sole source" contracts because of the company's classification as a small business, according to online databases that track federal government appropriations.

NewEra, previously known as Western Precision Inc. and located in Hildale, Utah, also received a $900,000 loan in 2005 from the federal Small Business Administration, the data show.

The president and chief executive of the company is John. C. Wayman, identified as an FLDS leader and a close associate to Warren Jeffs, the sect's "prophet," who was convicted last year as an accomplice to rape for arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin.

Steve Barlow, human resources manager for NewEra, said last week that it would be inappropriate to comment, "Given everything that's going on. I could only give you the company motto: `Good parts on time.' "
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King PSYZ
04-14-2008, 09:16 PM
I wonder if we could have a FLDS vs Scientology deathmatch PPV event?

GlobemalloSpike
04-15-2008, 04:40 AM
That "small business" moniker does seem to be a gargantuan loophole. It was reported (on Thom Hartmann) that this shady gun runner:

the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling company led by a 22-year-old man whose vice president was a licensed masseur. With the award last January of a federal contract worth as much as nearly $300 million, the company, AEY Inc., which operates out of an unmarked office in Miami Beach

also got his $300 million contract in part because he was listed as a small business.

the whole disturbing story from CorpWatch (http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14992)