[Vision2020] Big boys can't be criminals

[Art Deco]

February 1, 2011Kickback suit settled

The Spokesman-Review 

Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $46 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged kickbacks to win government work. 

The Department of Justice charged that Sun Microsystems Inc., which Oracle bought last year, and other technology companies paid kickbacks to Accenture PLC for Accenture to recommend that federal agencies buy Sun products. 

The Justice Department said last year that the lawsuit covered software contracts that ran from 1998 to 2006 and were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 

Six other companies including Hewlett-Packard Co. have settled similar charges. 

The settlement by Oracle's America unit also resolved claims that Sun provided incomplete and inaccurate information to government contracting officers.

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So let's get this straight:  Accenture is hired by our government to make a recommendation about a software purchase.  It then recommends a firm that bribed it to the tune of at least $46 million dollars for Accenture's recommendation of their product.

Is this not wonderful or what?

Why haven't criminal charges been rigorously pursued?  We are not a third world country where bribery is the norm, I hope.

This kind of action assures that we continue to treat many criminal acts of businesses and other large organizations with the policy of "if you get caught, nothing really bad happens (no criminal charges/penalties/jail time) except you just have to give back most of the money you stole."




Wayne A. Fox
1009 Karen Lane
PO Box 9421
Moscow, ID  83843

waf at moscow.com
208 882-7975
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