Word: contract
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Hollywood's moneymen surely love Murphy. Last week CBS signed him to a three-year contract for shows he will direct, produce or appear in. Coming to America is the first in a lucrative five-film deal with Paramount Pictures. Murphy also hopes to direct The Butterscotch Kid (a comedy starring Arsenio Hall) and co-star with James Earl Jones in a film version of August Wilson's drama Fences. Says Jerry Bruckheimer, who co-produced both Cop movies: "He's such a wanna-see guy -- you wanna see what he'll do next. If he was available, there...
Through interviews with consultants and others involved in this network, TIME has pieced together details of one of the deals that is part of the massive investigation. Stuart Berlin, a key civilian contracting officer at the Pentagon, allegedly provided information involving an electronic-testing- device contract worth $100 million to a defense consultant who was a close friend. The information made its way to a Long Island firm that hoped to win the contract. In addition, Justice Department officials told TIME that they have specific, solid evidence that former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman last fall warned Melvyn Paisley...
...story of the testing-device contract begins with the retirement from the Pentagon of William Parkin about five years ago. He had worked for 20 years as a civilian employee of the Navy, rising to become the chief contracting officer on the cruise-missile program. He had a reputation for being tough on contractors; at his retirement party, McDonnell Douglas presented him with a "cost cutter of the decade" award. But afterward, Parkin decided to go through the "revolving door" between the Pentagon and those who do business with it. He set up a consulting firm in nearby Alexandria...
...Parkin was working for the Navy and Lackner for a defense contractor; they grew close enough to become involved in several joint business ventures. Parkin gave Lackner half the fees he was collecting from Hazeltine and proposed to share any bonus he might receive if Hazeltine won the IFF contract...
...Secretary Frank Carlucci maintained that the corruption concerned "individuals, not the institution," prosecutors disagreed. "It's going to show that the whole procurement process is a joke," contended a high-ranking investigator. While not claiming that all transactions are fraudulent, he insisted that "there hasn't been a significant contract let in the past six or eight years that hasn't been made on the basis of inside information...