🇨🇦 Consultant Milks Feds for Years While Ottawa Slept

Andrew McDermott and his shell firm AM Government Consulting Inc. allegedly ran a two-year overbilling scam on Shared Services Canada contracts from May 2020 to June 2022, submitting fraudulent timesheets while bouncing between multiple federal contracts. PSPC didn't even launch an investigation until 2021 — meaning he was billing phantom hours in real time while bureaucrats napped. By 2024, they finally found three subcontractors involved. That's a three-year lag between discovery and action.

This isn't an isolated grifter problem. It's a structural rot. Ottawa's procurement circus has no real oversight, no consequences, and contractors know it. The same apparatus that gave you ArriveCAN's $60-million app and Phoenix payroll disaster can't even catch basic timesheet fraud without a multi-year forensic dig. McDermott didn't hack the system — he just understood it better than the people running it.

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