ChoicePoint - Can they do ANYTHING right?

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"Illinois state police canceled a contract with a nationally known DNA laboratory because it failed to detect the presence of semen on tests of evidence in nearly a dozen cases, officials said.

No one appears to have been freed as a result of the errors at Virginia-based Bode Technology, Doug Brown, a first deputy director with the state police, said Thursday.

"We're very angry about it, we are very disappointed," he said. "We are very lucky that our quality assurance caught this."

Illinois authorities conducted quality checks on 51 of 1,200 rape kits Bode had said contained no semen, Brown said. They discovered that 11 of the tests, or nearly 22 percent, had simply failed to detect the semen.

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A message left Friday for Chuck Jones, a spokesman for Bode's parent company, Alpharetta, Ga.-based ChoicePoint Inc., was not immediately returned."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/19/AR2005081900650.html

"An informal Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into stock trading by the two top executives at ChoicePoint appears to have turned into a full-blown investigation."

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/business/0805/11bizchoice.html

"In February, ChoicePoint said the data theft occurred when "a small number of very well-organized criminals posed as legitimate companies to gain access to personal information about consumers."

Information provided by ChoicePoint has since been used in about 750 identity-theft scams"
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1374868418;fp;16;fpid;0

And the Company that did the 'Felon' Purge in Florida during the 2000 Election.
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It was ChoicePoint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChoicePoint#Criticism_Regarding_the_Florida_Voter_File