KMOV St. Louis has been running a lot of spots about the Wentzville offices of Serco that were given a $1.2 billion contract to process ACA, or Obamacare, applications. If you have been following the news story, you know that they basically paid employees to do nothing, and processed almost no applications.
http://www.kmov.com/news/investigates/News-4-investigates-Workers-paid-taxpayer-dollars-to-do-nothing-259002161.html
They were just given a big fat $98 million government extension.
http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Controversial-ACA-contractor-receives-contract-extension-from-government-265783851.html
Serco is NOT a local company. They began as the British arm of RCA, supplying services to the cinema industry. They are a global defense and everything else contractor.
They run the Dubai and
Copenhagen Metro's (mass transit). They run parking meters in
Chicago.. They own railway worldwide. They do cyber-intelligence for the U.S. government and other large entities. They supply electronic tags (those leg bands) to
the UK Ministry of Justice.
They run a school district in the UK. They own prisons. Leisure and vacation facilities. Waste management services. Facilities management at hospitals. Run the Iraqi airport. (EDIT: They were in charge when this utterly bizarre loss of 12 billion dollars happened: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 )
They run immigration Detention Facilities in the UK. Give driver's licence and driver exams in Ontario.
They run immigration Detention Facilities in the UK. Give driver's licence and driver exams in Ontario.
They are one of the largest defense contractors in the world.
They acquired SI International, in Reston Virginia in 2008. This gave them their U.S. address.****
Serco just lost London's Dockland Light Railway.
http://www.theguardian.com/
http://www.theguardian.com/
People in the UK hate Serco, and rightfully so.
Serco haven't just overbilled the US. Check out their contracts and follow the pattern of scandal. In the UK they billed the Ministry of justice for (electronically) tagging offenders THAT WERE DEAD.
Oh, and their hospital management?
From the Wikipedia link:
In health services, Serco's difficulties include the poor handling of pathology labs and fatal errors in patient records. At St Thomas' Hospital, the increase in the number of clinical incidents arising from Serco non-clinical management has resulted in patients receiving incorrect and infected blood, as well as patients suffering kidney damage due to Serco providing incorrect data used for medical calculations.[59] A Serco employee later revealed that the company had falsified 252 reports to the National Health Service regarding Serco health services in Cornwall.[60]
And isn't it nice to know that all of that personal medical information is in the hands of one of the largest intelligence contractors in the world?
Yes, they are rapists, too:
(Also from the Wikipedia article)
In September 2013, Serco was accused of extensive sexual abuse cover-ups of immigrants at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre prison in Bedfordshire, England [30]
AND
The Union of Christmas Island Workers highlighted the systemic failure by Serco to manage the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre. The centre detains a large number of refugees including 1,000 children.[36] Under Serco, there has been an increase of deaths in custody, self-harm, and of Serco staff beating prisoners. As well, there has been a deterioration of facilities leading to the decline of the physical and the mental health of detainees and of staff. Ombudsman Allan Asher on the Australian radio show AM said, "In the first week of June when I visited Christmas Island, more than 30 incidents of self-harm by detainees held there were reported."[36] Serco, in a staged memo leaked to The Australian, blamed the detainees for "creating a culture of self-harm," in order to use it as a "bargaining tool."[36]
How did they do with that School district?
Serco held a 10-year contract with Bradford City Council between 2001 and 2011 to manage and operate the local education authority,[65] providing education support services to the City's schools. This period was marked with "real problems" according to senior council officials and was taken back in house by the local authority after this period.[66] Serco similarly manages and operates Walsall[67] and Stoke-on-Trent local education authorities.[68] Serco is one of Ofsted's three Regional Inspection Service Providers, responsible for school inspections in the English Midlands.[69] Serco is also the provider of a Student information system, Facility, used in schools and colleges in several countries.[70
What DOESN'T Serco have it's fingers in?
EDIT: Consider the fascist possibilities of a corporation that control's driver licencing, education, prisons, medical care, detention, as well as intelligence gathering, cyber-spying, etc, globally. If we made a map that showed the influence of Serco and their other corporate peers (CACI, Lockheed, etc), would we see a world dominated by U.S./British private intelligence corporations?
Also, consider that Serco does the same work as USIS, LLC, the company that put Snowden at the NSA,
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-gives-new-contract-to-firm-that-cleared-nsa-leaker-1404344583
In fact, here is Serco's protest of a contract award to USIS, LLC:
http://www.gao.gov/products/d02600#mt=summary
So what does this have to do with public transit in St. Louis? It's not a direct link.
Serco is the macrocosm, and Bi-State Development Agency is the microcosm. This is the template for agencies and companies that receive government funding. Developing infrastructure (transportation or intelligence gathering) makes the private company wealthy, and they in turn feed the politicians with power in the infrastructure-- and of course massive campaign funds.
All government money comes from the taxpayers. The macrocosm and the microcosm are nothing more than means to rob the public. Serco is just an extremely transparent example.
Happy Fourth of July!
Happy Fourth of July!
***** SI International is worth investigating on it's own. Ray Oleson founded
the company in 1997. He'd worked for CACI before that. CACI formed in
1962. CACI has strong ties to Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush regime. A British American defense, spy, and intelligence contractor,
with massive global operations. CACI was sued in 2004 by a group of
tortured Iraqi Abu Ghraib prisoners. The result of the suit is on-going today.
Since 2007 they have rather suddenly began purchasing over 20 other IT
companies, at a rate of several per year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CACI
SI International's 2008 purchase date is not coincidental to the global financial collapse. It is too big to go into in this post, or in a blog post at all, it is book length, but SI ties to the Bush family and W's presidency, and probably back to WW2 and St. Louis investment banker Herbert Walker (GW Bush maternal grandfather, and founder of the bank that GW Bush's brother William "Bucky" still runs. And let's not forget the banker that laundered gold for the Nazi's, Thomas McKittrick, from St. Louis. After WW2 he brought Reichbank's Emil Puhl to NYC.)
SI International's 2008 purchase date is not coincidental to the global financial collapse. It is too big to go into in this post, or in a blog post at all, it is book length, but SI ties to the Bush family and W's presidency, and probably back to WW2 and St. Louis investment banker Herbert Walker (GW Bush maternal grandfather, and founder of the bank that GW Bush's brother William "Bucky" still runs. And let's not forget the banker that laundered gold for the Nazi's, Thomas McKittrick, from St. Louis. After WW2 he brought Reichbank's Emil Puhl to NYC.)
Unravel
the knot of SI International, CACI, Serco, the Bush Family's St. Louis
and WW2 activities and ties to BIS and the Nazi's, and you could unravel
every conspiracy theory, illegal war and scandal since the "Great War."
(It was great for them!)
This list includes Serco, CACI, and all those like them (from 2008):
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalmilitarism19.htm
It is worth reading the whole list. Guess who else?
USIS= (listed as a consortium sub-contractor under the Boeing project listing)= the contractor that vetted Edward Snowden, however, mostly famous for their ties to the Bush regime's Carlyle Group, who are famous for their Iraqi war profits, and sub-prime mortgage crisis insolvency.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_carlyle15.htm
SECOND EDIT: Not big on 9/11 conspiracy theories, but Serco comes up in doc's a lot on such sites. Their CEO (he retired just last year) was on the 47th floor of one of the towers on 9/11
https://decryptedmatrix.com/live/serco-the-biggest-company-youve-never-heard-of/
I can't work out what these links are actually saying, both badly written and unclear, but apparently someone tried to sue them for a military death:
http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/06/1999-marine-links-serco-red-switch.html
It is worth reading the whole list. Guess who else?
USIS= (listed as a consortium sub-contractor under the Boeing project listing)= the contractor that vetted Edward Snowden, however, mostly famous for their ties to the Bush regime's Carlyle Group, who are famous for their Iraqi war profits, and sub-prime mortgage crisis insolvency.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_carlyle15.htm
SECOND EDIT: Not big on 9/11 conspiracy theories, but Serco comes up in doc's a lot on such sites. Their CEO (he retired just last year) was on the 47th floor of one of the towers on 9/11
https://decryptedmatrix.com/live/serco-the-biggest-company-youve-never-heard-of/
I can't work out what these links are actually saying, both badly written and unclear, but apparently someone tried to sue them for a military death:
http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/06/1999-marine-links-serco-red-switch.html
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