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2010-01-12 Economy

Stimulus money sent to phantom ZIP codes in North Carolina

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Deputy Press Secretary for the Recovery Act Jim Gilio said the illegitimate ZIP codes were probably innocent mistakes.

Were any of the innocently mistaken checks cashed?

Posted by gorb 2010-01-12 00:14|| 2010-01-12 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 And WHO cashed them?

Posted by tipover 2010-01-12 01:49|| 2010-01-12 01:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Rielle Hunter? ;)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-01-12 06:45|| 2010-01-12 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Fraud galore going on in this country. What was once, "truth, justice, the American Way", is now "lie, cheat, and steal".

Acorn, NC ??

Back in Nov '09, didn't the Gov't list new stimulus jobs created in non-existent Arizona congressional districts?

Posted by Tom- Pa 2010-01-12 08:29|| 2010-01-12 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 He said the list was compiled based on information reported by recipients of the funding, and that they most likely made data entry errors.

Whoever wrote the software that allows invalid zip codes to be entered should be fired. Whoever signed off on the software specification should be fired. Whoever ran the quality control testing to test for such simple, stupid things should be fired. Uh, there was QC, wasn't there?

It should be a simple matter to program a subroutine that would check zip codes as they are entered to make sure they match up with a valid zip code and whenever you can verify what users enter into a database, you damn well better verify it.

Innocent mistakes? Mistakes, maybe, but the kind that ought to get somebody sent to prison.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-01-12 12:18|| 2010-01-12 12:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I'll be in Tahiti if anyone needs me.

Posted by NCMike 2010-01-12 14:37|| 2010-01-12 14:37|| Front Page Top

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