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Benefits system

Friday, January 19 at 6:13 PM

Where are Pelosi and Reid when you need’em? State Sen. Hagedorn, in the Jan. 18 Rocky Mountain News article, “Hearing eyes benefits woes. The system is ineffective, and it’s not working. It’s as simple as that", should use the CBMS (Colorado Benefits Management System), as just a mere single example of local federal funds fraud, waste, abuse, and RICO violations. Pelosi and Reid are convening congressional investigations into wrongful appropriations of federal funds. Sen. Hagedorn is mis-guided in creating a state “whistleblower’s protection law” for this federal funded computer project. The USDOL, CFR-29/41, and FAR, already has these federal protections for whistleblowers. Strange, Hagedorn isn’t complaining that Mike Leavitt, Secy. U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, hasn’t knocked down his door, armed with his Bush administration sanctioned fiscal oversight and taxpayer stewardship hammer.
Can’t find former State of Colorado Human Services executive director Marva Hammons? Are we giving her a state retirement check? If so, this check should be stopped, until she answers a host of federal funds questions. Hagedorn should join forces in a bi-partisan effort, with state auditing sleuth’s and rep’s Gardner and Cadman, state attorney general, and Denver Deputy USAG, so they can drill-down and find out how $223 million in taxpayers’ funds were actually used. Hammons and Owens are solely responsible and accountable for the CBMS project’s compliance to federal procurement, hiring, and contracting laws.
A great place to start their audit would be Hammon’s perennial USDOL-OFCCP VETS-100 reports, which discloses the data and facts, surrounding the CBMS project’s contracting and hiring of combat disabled military veterans. A special treat would be Hammon’s hired a CFO during her tenure and I would be tickled pink to know if that successful candidate was a vet or just another illegal political appointment. The real culprits in the CBMS fiasco, is the entire bipartisan state legislative body, who succumbed to Owens “mushroom” policies.
James J. Tenant
Lt. Commander, U.S. Navy, Ret.
Cenennial

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