Half-billion dollar Social Security Admin building funded on a lie

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How did federal agency get $500M from stimulus? ‘We misled Congress,’ ex-official says

On paper, it sounded like a true government success story: The Social Security Administration in September opened a "state-of-the-art" data center in Maryland, housing wage and benefit information on almost every American, "on time and under budget."

However, six years after Congress approved a half-billion dollars for the project -- the largest building project funded by the 2009 stimulus -- a whistleblower says the center was built on a lie.

Officials originally claimed they needed the $500 million to replace their entire, 30-year-old National Computer Center located at agency headquarters in Woodlawn, Md. But [Michael Keegan, a former associate commissioner who worked on the project, told FoxNews] they overstated their case -- the agency has no plans to replace the center, and only moved a fraction of the NCC to the new site.

The apparently-not-outdated NCC continues to function and employ hundreds of people. Keegan is suing the SSA under the whistle-blower law for his old job back and back pay. He says in that suit there was no need to do anything but simply remodel the computer floor at the old building, at a cost of less than $200,000.

Your government bureaucracy at work, folk. Aren't you proud?

 

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The apparently-not-outdated NCC continues to function and employ hundreds of people. Keegan is suing the SSA under the whistle-blower law for his old job back and back pay. He says in that suit there was no need to do anything but simply remodel the computer floor at the old building, at a cost of less than $200,000.

Your government bureaucracy at work, folk. Aren't you proud?

nope, not one bit.. It's the evil government that is and always has been, destroying America.. land of the free? that's absolute bullcrap.. jmo