Поучительные истории.

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The Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation has announced that Dragan Simovski, the operator of Freedom Transportation Inc., has been sentenced to three years in jail and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $532,000 restitution in connection with a double-brokering scheme....
As part of the scam, Simovski entered into contracts with companies on behalf of Freedom, promising to transport freight for them. He provided information about the freight loads to a co-conspirator broker, knowing that the broker would find other companies to transport and deliver the goods.
Simovski and the co-conspirator agreed that Freedom would bill the customers as if the fake carrier had kept and performed the jobs. The amount lost by the companies that actually delivered the freight was approximately $532,000.

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HOPE, Ark. — FTL Transport Services Chairman and CEO Gary Salisbury confirmed Thursday that the corporation’s flatbed division — Fikes Truck Line — was no longer operational....
Salisbury said the need to end operation of the flatbed division boiled down to cash.
“We’ve been struggling for the past year,” he said. “When I bought the company (in May 2013 from Jim Smith) we had a lot of debt, and I thought we could pull out of it and turn it around, and it got to where we just could not.”
It was a combination of several things that created the cash flow situation.
“When we started getting behind, we got behind really quick. I know it didn’t happen overnight, but it seemed like one day we were OK and the next day we didn’t have any money,” Salisbury said. “We had some guys leave us through this last year and year before last when we did electronic logs we had about 40 percent of our fleet leave, and we started building back with some company equipment and as our owner-operators left we added more company equipment.”
Fikes probably added equipment too quickly, Salisbury said. “We probably added more than we should have at that pace, but we had commitments with the customers and we were trying to meet those and you know how that goes. Trying to get them covered we found ourselves in a position where we didn’t feel like we were going to pull it out

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Нeкрасивая история про министра транспорта, бывшего мэра Charlotte, NC:

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was paid nearly a half-million dollars by a bus company while mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, even though he performed no work for the company, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
The lawsuit was filed in North Carolina by Elaine Rudisill, a trustee for the bankrupt bus company, DesignLine USA. The suit seeks the return of $421,000 that Foxx was paid over four years as the company's deputy general counsel.
The company's records do not reflect any work performed by Foxx, according to the lawsuit.
The suit alleges that there was no general counsel for the company, and no evidence that Foxx was in contact with outside lawyers employed by the company. It charges that Foxx spent little or no time at the company's offices.