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Cash is a member of the Board of directors of the Knight-Ridder Corporation. A Federal Court ruled on June 20 that two papers owned by both Knight-Ridder and the Gannet Company had engaged in unfair labor practices by locking out workers who had been on strike since July...
Union members have been forbidden to protest on HBS property and at Cash's home in Weston. They seek a statement from Cash objecting to Knight-Ridder's appeal of the court's decision...
...circle widened after Molten Metal joined forces with another Knight client, the defense contractor Lockheed Martin, to pursue cleanup contracts. That company gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party last June. Three months later, the new partners were awarded a $27 million contract from Grumbly's staff to propose a clean-up strategy for one of the nation's most polluted nuclear sites, in Richland, Wash. The contract qualified the companies to bid later for the $5 billion cleanup...
...string of coincidences and conjecture," says Haney's spokesman, adding that the company "categorically and in the strongest terms" denies any quid pro quo. Knight did not return telephone calls seeking comment. Grumbly, who left the government two months ago for a job with an environmental firm, dismissed as "baloney" any suggestion that Haney got favorable treatment because of Knight or contributions...
...political advantages were obvious by the time the plant opened in September 1993, early in the Clinton Administration. Thanks to Knight, one of the guest speakers there was Grumbly, whose trip the lobbyist had arranged. Grumbly suggested that the firm could receive as much as $200 million in federal work, which sent the stock soaring. Gore, who wrote a best-selling book on the environment, joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity...