Wikileaks unveils audio to show US dirty dealings with disabled's money

Presidents Barack Obama and GW Bush's administration appointees have allegedly been caught with their hands in a fund for employing the disabled's cookie jar.

There were ten Obama appointees, and three Bush ones implicated.

Wikileaks released the SourceAmerica tapes on Monday with the intention of giving the public evidence of this dirty dealing.

The US government programme AbilityOne is awarded about $3 billion annually in government contracts, which is then mostly distributed by the non-profit organisation SourceAmerica.

Companies which get those funds are supposed to have 75% of their work done by blind or otherwise disabled people.

Most of this ends up going through the military sector, including the Department of Defence, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin & Boeing.

According to The Daily Telegraph reports emerged in July stating that only about half the companies funded qualified.

Wikileaks' tapes are of conversations between Jean Robinson (Lead Counsel of SourceAmerica) and Ruben Lopez (CEO of Bona Fide Conglomerate Inc., one of the placement organisations).

Amongst the highlights are Robinson explaining what a "fall guy" is, the fact that Goodwill was given competitor's business plans and discussing John Huggins' letter of resignation.

Jim Gibbons, the president of Goodwill industries and Obama's pick for the newly formed  White House Council for Community Solutions, was very bad.

He allegedly fought for a $7 million contract by not allowing other companies to bid without a business plan - and when they submitted one he nicked it.

Huggins, in his resignation letter, said that the staff weren't paying attention to legal advice, and he objected to the sexual relationships going on in the organisation.

Robinson noted that Huggins didn't mention "steering of contracts" or the fact that there was a massive conflict of interests regarding Goodwills' $7 million.

When trying to access SourceAmerica's website to read their response to the allegations directly, Times LIVE got a 403 error. "Your location (ZA) has been blacklisted."