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...There’s nothing sinister in giving it to the subcontractor,” Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness David S. C. Chu told members of the press last week. “They’re the mechanic. They have no policy role...
...tales of Bolton's ferocious management style seemed to strike a toxic note. One charge came from Melody Townsel, who dispatched an impassioned e-mail to the committee about her encounters with Bolton while working for a private subcontractor on a 1994 U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) mission in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Townsel says she wrote a letter to AID officials complaining about the lack of funds for the project from the contractor, a company that had hired Bolton as a lawyer. "Within hours after dispatching that letter," Townsel told the committee, "my hell began...
Many have slipped through this system. A case in point: P. Takis Veliotis, a former executive vice president at General Dynamics, who is alleged to have taken $1.3 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor while he was managing the Quincy, Mass., shipyards in the early '70s. During his security check, few of the claims Veliotis made about his background in Greece could be confirmed. He provided no birth certificate, and his Greek naval service could not be corroborated. Nonetheless, Veliotis was granted secret clearance. Furthermore, since Defense Department rules prohibit immigrant aliens from running top-secret facilities, the General Dynamics...
...violence raged in several Sunni towns west of Baghdad on April 8, Mohammed Rifat steered his green Jeep Cherokee out of the gates of Abu Ghraib prison, where he worked as a construction foreman for a Kellogg Brown & Root subcontractor. Rifat, 41, who returned to Iraq in February after 24 years in Toronto, was heading home to care for his aging mother. He never made it. Somewhere in the night, his family believes, kidnappers stopped his vehicle and spirited him away. This is everyone's worst nightmare in the new Iraq. A bewildering variety of groups--some seeking money, some...
Currently, Sodhexo performs background checks on non-management level employees only by request of the subcontractor, according to Merry Touborg, spokesperson for Harvard’s Office of Human Resources...