AN 'INCREDIBLE TALE' OF WAR FRAUD
McMillin, Miles
An Incredible Tale' Of A War Fraud CHARGE IT TO THE NAVY, by A. Kinch. P. O. Box 1677, Milwaukee, Wis. $1. Reviewed by Miles McMillin THIS book is one of the most fantastic stories of war frauds...
...Reviewed by Miles McMillin THIS book is one of the most fantastic stories of war frauds that you will ever read...
...A half million dollars was recovered and Kinch was paid $12,000 under the old Informer's Statute, but no criminal proceedings were brought...
...This man frankly admits that he lied and tells of how the company lawyer had him sign affidavits "that the company officials were blameless and so forth...
...With a few distinguished exceptions the newspapers have boycotted the charges made by Kinch despite constant pressure to get them to refer to it...
...That was surely a laugh...
...It's the story of what a skilled worker, the author, observed while he worked in a large war plant in Milwaukee, of what other workers reported to him, and of his fruitless efforts to get the Government to act to prosecute for war fraud...
...While working in this plant Kinch observed that work being done on regular contracts was being charged to the contracts placed,with the company by the Navy...
...After what appears on the evidence to be a clear case of stalling, buck-passing, and weaseling, a Government investigation turned up a tax evasion case against the company...
...With the cooperation of several of his co-workers he obtained sufficient evidence to present it to Government authorities...
...KINCH includes a letter in his book from one of the "fall guys" who talks of how the "front office came down in the shop to try to cover up...
...For a dollar you can read an incredible tale of what the newspapers" do not find fit to print...
...The failure to prosecute was due to the fact that several workers in the shop assumed the blame for the systematic overcharging against the Government...
...Yet—and this is the most incredible part about it—the charges in this book seem to be substantiated by the most convincing documentation...
...Lewis Carroll's genius for fantasy couldn't equal it...
...all I know is that the orders must have come from some place in the office and that Cibulka (an official) came down and told us what order number to use and which not to use...
Vol. 9 • September 1945 • No. 36
