Sizing Things Up
Under fire for giving too many contracts to big business, the SBA fights back.
Depending on whom you talk to, Texas-born small-businessadvocate Lloyd Chapman is either a modern-day Cesar Chavez or aconspiracy theorist with a grudge. Either way, as the SBA haslearned, he's become hard to ignore.
In late 2004, Chapman and his organization, the American Small BusinessLeague, spearheaded an investigation into a series of flaws inthe SBA's contract procurement process, culminating in alawsuit. Since the end of 2004, at least five reports from threedifferent government agencies--the Government AccountabilityOffice, the SBA Office of Advocacy and the SBA Office of theInspector General--have noted irregularities in the SBA'ssystem of awarding small-business contracts, prompted in part byChapman's incessant lobbying. The agencies' findings allegecomplacency at best, borderline fraud at worst.
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