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Blackwater Gets a Billion in Small Business Contracts With Help From SBA Loophole
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U.S. Newswire
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July 30, 2008
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Christopher Gunn, Communications Director of American
Small Business League, +1-707-789-9575, cgunn@asbl.com
PETALUMA, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report
from the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Inspector
General found Blackwater Worldwide had received "at least 100 small
business set-aside contracts, worth over $144 million, since 2000."
Additionally, the report pointed to the SBA's highly controversial
ruling regarding Blackwater's size as a major contributing factor to
the inclusion of Blackwater in federal small business contracting
statistics.
In November of 2006, the SBA ruled that Blackwater was a small
business by ...