tagged w/ Defense Contracts
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Via Military.Com:Early Brief
US Firm Pleads Guilty to Illegal Defense Exports
July 13, 2011
Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey-based defense contractor has admitted sending sensitive military drawings and specifications to China without authorization.
Swiss Technology Inc. of Clifton pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Newark to one count of conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act.
Prosecutors say the company had a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide parts for rifles and machine guns. Rather than manufacture the parts itself, prosecutors say the firm sent drawings and specifications to a firm in China where they could be made more cheaply.
U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman says the company's attempt to cut corners and increase its profits could put American troops at risk.
The company has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution.
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US Firm Pleads Guilty to Illegal Defense Exports
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As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.
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There IS no "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party, and there never has been. It's a sham. Let's just do a quick tally of bills that Feinstein and the majority of the Democratic party have supported:
-PATRIOT Act
-Iraq War Authorization
-Military Commissions Act
-Telecom Immunity
and so on, and so on. Obama voted for the last two, and voted to re-authorize the PATRIOT Act to boot. And don't get me started on Afghanistan.
Stop voting Democrat and we can ditch this bitch.As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations... more
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Interested in seeing just how pervasive the Defense Contractors have been in spreading their wealth among the Congressional Districts?Interested in seeing just how pervasive the Defense Contractors have been in spreading... more
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“If we are to meet growing energy demand and slow the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear power must be a larger part of our energy mix; it is a mature technology with significant potential to supply large amounts of safe, reliable, emissions-free base load power. In order to ensure that such an expansion can occur, the United States must have a permanent repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste,” said Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman.
U.S. Department of Energy Announces the Availability of Disposal Contracts for New Nuclear Reactors:
http://www.energy.gov/news/6704.htm
URS’ Washington Division Opens Nuclear Energy Headquarters in South Carolina:
http://www.urscorp.com/Press_Releases/pressRelsTradeDet.php?recordID=459&listYear=2008
URS is organized into three divisions: the URS Division, the EG&G Division, which includes the operations of Lear Siegler Services*, and the Washington Division.
*Among LSI's assets are its well regarded and wide-ranging Department of Defense Contract Field Team (CFT) programs as well as other major domestic and international contracts.
EG&G Technical Services, Inc. and Lear Siegler Services, Inc. consolidated to become one of the nation's leading U.S. federal government contractors providing operations and maintenance, systems engineering and technical assistance, and program management, primarily to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
URS Awarded Department of Defense Contract to Support Contract Field Team Program:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_/ai_n27986597
More on URS:
http://www.urscorp.com/index.php
“If we are to meet growing energy demand and slow the growth of greenhouse gas... more
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Data from the recently created USAspending.gov website.
http://current.com/items/89001391_usaspending_gov_where_americans_can_see_where_their_money_goes
FY 2008 Rank Parent Company Name Dollars % of total
1 THE BOEING COMPANY $2,883,356,597 5.60%
2 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION $2,438,000,514 4.73%
3 NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION $1,526,171,116 2.96%
4 LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY LLC $1,447,722,456 2.81%
5 LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC $1,039,231,351 2.02%
6 BECHTEL GROUP, INC $996,006,153 1.93%
7 MCKESSON CORPORATION $949,346,059 1.84%
8 ABU DHABI NATIONAL OIL COMPANY FOR DISTRIBUTION $918,256,500 1.78%
9 GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION $806,912,172 1.57%
10 RAYTHEON COMPANY $793,191,177 1.54%
Complete list at link.
*Note: FY 2008 only includes data up to first and part of second quarter.
The contracts database is compiled from government data last released on 04/29/2008Data from the recently created USAspending.gov website.... more
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Some explosive testimony this afternoon from a panel of whistleblowers testifying before the Senate’s Democratic Policy Committee on contractor abuse in Iraq.
A contractor died when a DynCorp manager used an employee’s armored car to transport prostitutes, according to Barry Halley, a Worldwide Network Services employee working under a DynCorp subcontract.
“DynCorp’s site manager was involved in bringing prostitutes into hotels operated by DynCorp. A co-worker unrelated to the ring was killed when he was travelling in an unsecure car and shot performing a high-risk mission. I believe that my co-worker could have survived if he had been riding in an armored car. At the time, the armored car that he would otherwise have been riding in was being used by the contractor’s manager to transport prostitutes from Kuwait to Baghdad.“
Other revelations:
- Kellogg Brown & Root contractors used to destroy countless quantities of still-usable equipment that was difficult to transport in “massive burn pits” that were “burning 24 hours a day.”
- KBR’s ice foreman “was cheating the troops out of ice at the same time that he was trading the ice for DVDs, CDs, food and other items at the Iraqi shops across the street.”
- When KBR whistleblower Frank Cassaday reported weapons looting, he was placed in a jail tent by KBR security.
- KBR employees looted Iraqi palaces for treasure to sell on eBay.Some explosive testimony this afternoon from a panel of whistleblowers testifying... more
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Along with their colleagues in the House and Senate, the politicians who will get a status report from General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker have as much as $196 million of their own money invested in companies doing business with the Department of Defense, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated. From aircraft and weapons manufacturers to producers of medical supplies and soft drinks, the investment portfolios of more than a quarter of Congress—and of countless constituents—include holdings in companies paid billions of dollars each month to support America's military in Iraq and elsewhere.
According to the most recent reports of their personal finances, 151 current members of Congress had between $78.7 million and $195.5 million invested in companies that received defense contracts of at least $5 million in 2006. In all, these companies received more than $275.6 billion from the government in 2006, or $755 million per day, according to FedSpending.org, a website of the budget watchdog group OMB Watch.
Lawmakers' investments in these contractors yielded them between $15.8 million and $62 million in income from 2004 through 2006, through dividends, capital gains, royalties and interest, the Center found. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who are two of Congress's wealthiest members, were among the lawmakers who earned the most income from these contractors between 2004 and 2006, with Sensenbrenner making at least $3.2 million and Kerry reaping at least $2.6 million.
Along with their colleagues in the House and Senate, the politicians who will get a... more
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Santa's coat is red, and I think I know why...
"A Christmas wish that Christ's great love,
His grace and goodness too,
May fill your heart and bless you now
and all the whole year through
May the Lord Jesus truly bless you during this wonderful season
as you rejoice with family and friends"
-Blackwater Worldwide"
Merry Blackwater Christmas everyone.
Santa's coat is red, and I think I know why...
"A Christmas wish that... more
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Holding U.S. troops at gunpoint is not the best PR move...
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