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DeLay’s Pals Indicted (Again) | Porked Out | Chasing Hurricane Dollars | Tancredo Tantrum
by WS Editors | Oct 1, 2005 | Environment, Politics, UncategorizedTom and His Lucky DeLay—House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is lucky a hurricane hit New Orleans. Otherwise his cavalier cronyism would once again be front-page news. A year ago a top political aide, Jim Ellis, and fundraiser John Colyandro were indicted by a Texas grand jury for illegally funneling $190,000 in corporate contributions to Texas […]
A Corporate Free-for-All Becomes a Fee for All
by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2004 | Foreign Policy, UncategorizedA COVER-UP—In Iraq, the worst contracts could turn out to be “task-order” agreements. Christopher Yukins, an associate professor of government contract law at George Washington University, told Government Executive magazine in June that task-order contracts are also “non-competitive.” The most infamous of these contracts allowed the Army to hide its procurement of private-sector interrogators at the Abu […]
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