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What does Johnny Cochran have to do with Supplier Diversity?

By Alison Jimenez

Not much, really but his wife got drawn into a mess down in Louisiana several years back regarding the airport's DBE program.  Here's a quote from the Time Picayune:In its analysis of seven local agencies' programs aimed at helping disadvantaged business enterprises, or DBEs, The Times-Picayune found dozens of companies that were approved for participation despite evidence indicating that their owners didn't meet the rules. Eleven of those companies are owned by millionaires. Others should have been disqualified because their revenues are too high. And, officials at local agencies with DBE programs said, some are operating as front companies, where women or minorities claim to be the owners of companies that are, in fact, controlled by nondisadvantaged individuals...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).