From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:15:40 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Google Execs' planes at Moffett Field, CA |
[News coverage of the NASA Inspector General's report accentuates the negative, so I suggest reading the actual report, linked below. - LS] Google execs got improper discount on plane fuel, NASA says Alexei Oreskovic Reuters December 11, 2013 SAN FRANCISCO - The company that manages a fleet of airplanes owned and leased by Google Inc executives Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt improperly bought fuel from the government at below-market rates, for a savings of up to $5.3 million according to a report released by the NASA Inspector General on Wednesday. The 10-page report said the discounted fuel purchases were the result of a "misunderstanding" between a Defense Department fuel provider and the NASA Ames Research Center, which manages the California airfield where a Boeing 767, a military-type Alpha Jet and several other aircraft are stored. The report found that overall, NASA benefited from leasing 70,000 square feet of space to H211, the private company that manages the Google executives' aircraft. The $1.4 million a year that H211 paid NASA was at a fair market value. And NASA has flown more than 200 flights using some of the aircraft to collect climate data at no cost to the agency. … For the entire article, see http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/google-execs-got-improper-discount-plane-fuel-nasa-says-2D11730054 To download the original report, go to http://oig.nasa.gov/Special-Review/NASA_H211.pdf -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 LSiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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