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Jean Robinson discusses PRIDE issues

3/19 Jean Robinson drafts a letter which Robert Turner refused to send suggesting the US Ability Commission suspend "all future project allocations to PRIDE" until they verify they aren't in violation of the AbilityOne program's rules or regulations.

7/14 Jean Robinson tells Robert Turner "you've got to put your friendships" aside.

10/2 – 11/5 PRIDE was on probation and disallowed from bidding on projects, "but everybody bent the rules a hundred times to keep them from being out"

11/18 "No CRP has ever screwed up NASA the way they (PRIDE) did"

18/11 – 20/25 Jean Robinson describes when Carol Lowman (previously on the commission; now in the board) was brought in to call her friends. She works with "high-ranking" people to save the government contract (Fort Rucker) to be given to AbilityOne. "I think in her heart of hearts she doesn't know that she crawled in bed with the devils". She says "they were just buying time and waiting for PRIDE to, you know, be able to compete again and then they could."

23/3 Jean Robinson tells Ruben Lopez if someone went to AbilityOne tomorrow and said "I'd like to take a look at how you guys have awarded and how you're dealing with your top 10 or 20 agencies – that would pretty much uncover a bunch of crap".

23/24 Jean Robinson explains to Ruben Lopez she has a list of questions "OIG Conflict Discussion Questions" which would be difficult to answer in AbilityOne. One question is so dead-on-subject that "That one got me shot".

28/7 In one suggested question Jean Robinson tries to understand why NISH (SourceAmerica) pays for NCSE expenses. "They're supposed to be the conscience of SourceAmerica and yet we pay for them to fly there and we pay for them to meet before our board meeting. We give them staff. We resource them with staff. We pay their expenses. They play golf and then they stay over."

36/5 Jean Robinson describes the conflict of interest behind "the audit committee". So if that's headed by the CRPs that are participating in the program, you know, come on.

38 – 41 Jean Robinson describes how Jim Barone "stacked the board" and changed how the board elects members

42/11 – 42/16 After Robert Turner's resignation "they feel like they're pretty clean and sanitized now, but they're not."

45/5 – 45/24 Jean Robinson talks about the former board chair Gregory Bender and why he resigned. He "put in writing that the reason he resigned is because he was doing the same that PRIDE" was doing, namely, counting "temporary labor" workers into their numbers to make them look like they benefit more handicapped workers

46/1 – 46/11 Jean Robinson talks about a whistle-blower who "said that contracts were being steered to him by select NISH staff. Gregory Bender tried to influence other staff members "by writing that infamous what we call the SHAM email… where he says the B-1 – literally in his words, the B-1 process is a sham"

47 – 48 Jean Robinson again describes Goodwill's Jim Gibbons fighting for a $7 million contract, not letting another CRP to bid without a business plan and then stealing the business plan, "it just would have been competition".

51/5 – 51/15 Jean Robinson describes the real evaluation process. "Even if the evaluation committee that looks at projects for people…., the executive director, that one person has all the power in his or her hands… because they can say, to hell with what the evaluation and review committee came up with, I'm not going to give it to Bona Fide, I'm going to give it to CRP X."

53/2 – 53/8 The overall scheme is "who's kind of in bed with whom and the conflicts that they're trying to do". They try "to steer enough contracts to agencies that you are chummy with, and then when you leave the employ of SourceAmerica you go to work for those agencies."

58 – 59 Jim Barone rule change is referred to as "incestuous" board.

60/19 – 60/23 Jean Robinson tells Ruben Lopez to instruct the investigation team: "if they investigate all of the connections between Bob Chamberlin and PRIDE and Bob Chamberlin and Michael Ziegler, they will hit some pay dirt"

64/20 – 65/5 Jean Robinson explains Robert Turner sent a group of people to investigate the allegations against PRIDE. "They go down, they write up a report, they find even more shit that what we had allegations for, but they try to…sanitize it." As a result, the internal control auditor "resigned over that whole thing."

66/11 – 66/13 Jean Robinson: "PRIDE is a scumbag organization that we keep covering up for, and I don’t know why"