‘YOU BROKE THE FAITH’

Rep. Tammy Duckworth Pummels Government Contractor For Gaming Prep School Injury

ILLINOIS REP. TAMMY DUCKWORTH TODAY EXCORIATED A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR who she insinuates gamed the system to secure government contracts through a”set-aside” preferential for disabled veterans.

Braulio Castillo, owner of Strong Castle Inc., was awarded up to $500 million in government contracts by claiming he was disabled while playing sports at a military prep school in 1984.

Castillo filed — and received — a “disability rating” shortly before opening Strong Castle in 2012. Now the House Oversight Committee is investigating whether he received the contracts due to his relationship with IRS official Greg Roseman.

It was during a Oversight Committee hearing that Duckworth pummeled Castillo for breaking
“the trust of this great nation.” The Congresswoman from Illinois 8th District is a disabled veteran who lost both her legs and the use of her right arm in Iraq when the helicopter she was flying was hit by a rocket propelled grenade.

I’m so glad that you would be willing to play football in prep school again to protect this great country,” Duckworth scolded. “Shame on you, Mr. Castillo. Shame on you. You may not have broken any laws … but you certainly broke the trust of this great nation. You broke the trust of veterans. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans right now are waiting an average of 237 days for an initial disability rating. It is because people like you who are gaming the system are adding to that backlog that young men and women who are suffering from post-traumatic stress, who are missing limbs cannot get the compensation and the help that they need…Twisting your ankle in prep school is not defending or serving this nation, Mr. Castillo.

I don’t know Duckworth’s Congressional record, but I hope she’s this fierce on every abomination that passes her desk in Congress. I wonder: where does she stand on PRISM?