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Reach Out and Bilk Someone
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 12
Florida DOC officials were found in 1995 to have fraudulently awarded a contract to North American Intelicom (NAI) to provide "inmate telephone services" to 35 Florida state prisons. Rival communications company MCI filed a protest because they were not awarded the contract, even though their bid scored higher than NAI's ...
Filed under:
Contractor Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Telephone Rates,
Immunity/Liability,
Contractor Liability.
Location:
Florida.
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