Wherefore art thou Paragon Source?
The Paragon Source hilarity continues:
A judge in Montgomery hasn’t set a hearing yet in a suit over a $7 million no-bid computer contract for the state Finance Department because officials can’t find the company or its CEO.
State Rep. Alvin Holmes filed suit on Oct. 29 to block the contract with Paragon Source, an Oakton, Va., company that has no corporate address, business phone listing, fax number, e-mail address or Web site.
Tyrone Means, the attorney representing Holmes and the Legislature’s Contract Review Committee, said Monday the lawsuit is stalled because law enforcement officials in Virginia have been unable to locate Paragon Source and its CEO, Janet Lauderdale, to serve the complaint.
Is it really 2009? We can’t even track down the recipient of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds?! This should be pretty simple. Just put out the notice that if Lauderdale doesn’t respond by a certain date then the contract will be rescinded. Problem works itself out.
You’d think it’d be that simple, but you have to remember that we’re the third most corrupt State in the nation and our title is well defended.
The sea may boil and the moon become as blood now that I find myself on the same side as Alvin Holmes, politics does indeed make for strange bedfellows at times. As much as I would like to think this is all on the up and up anyone can detect odor arising from this …… Whose brother-in-law deal is this exactly?
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