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June 28, 2013 By AMK

IRS severing ties with firm amid $500 million in questionable contracts

The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it is moving to cut ties with a  favored software vendor after learning that one of the agency’s top procurement  officials had improper contact with the firm’s owner, one of a handful of  troubling revelations Congressional investigators have uncovered about the  company.

The firm in question, Strong Castle, Inc., is at the center of separate  investigations by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and the  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Both have been probing  allegations that the IRS’ deputy director for IT acquisition, Greg Roseman, gave  preferential treatment and inside information to Strong Castle’s owner, who the  committee called a longtime friend of Roseman.

Witnesses also claimed Strong Castle engaged in fraud to win its contracts, though  evidence the investigations have publicly produced to date suggest the company’s  activities fell within at least the letter of the law, if not its intent.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=534&sid=3372006&pid=0&page=1

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