[Wayne Maybury]

I saw an interesting bit on "60 minutes" last night. I only caught part of it but it looks like the US Coast Guard has purchased some boats and some ships that are 100% worthless. Of course the cost was in the millions.

Someone else maybe able to add some of the details but I believe that a consortium was formed between Northrop and xxx (sorry I can't remember the partner) to oversee this project for the USCG. Guess who the consortium gave the contracts to? You guessed it Northrop and xxx. Each project was riddled with crap and corruption from start to finish.

8 patrol boats were built and delivered but are all sitting tied up to a dock as they are not sea worthy. Someone had the idea to give them to some South American countries to be used to fight the drug trade. However, they are of such poor quality that the Coast Guard doesn't even want to give them away free as they doubt that they are good enough to be used in rivers or lakes. It was even stated that the boats probably aren't capable of even making the trip to South America.

Wayne