Named for the chairman of the powerful House Appropriations subcommittee on defense, who has shepherded most of its funding, the Murtha Institute was supposed to embark on projects to protect the country from terrorists and clean up environmental dangers. Much of the work went to companies and friends close to the congressman, and few of [...]
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WaPo Tucked into the voluminous congressional plan for U.S. military spending next year is $160 million intended to help Mexico’s police buy U.S.-made first-responder radios. It is a major purchase that one radio manufacturer got rolling, 12 members of Congress formally requested and a powerful defense appropriations chairman championed, according to records and congressional staff members. But [...] A Pennsylvania defense contractor who got millions of dollars in congressional earmarks from Rep. John Murtha has been blocked from doing business with the Navy amid allegations of fraud. Details of the suspension surfaced Friday as another Democrat who serves on the Murtha-chaired House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Rep. Pete Visclosky of Indiana, was subpoenaed in [...] Congressional Dems are standing by to man the ramparts as Republicans (led by Jeff Flake, AZ-6) try to mount an ethics investigation into the relationship of John Murtha (PA-12) with the PMA Group, a lobbying firm raided by the FBI. PMA was led by former Murtha staffer Paul Magliocchetti. Their clients were defense contractors who, it [...] A Pennsylvania defense research center regularly consulted with two “handlers” close to Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) as it collected nearly $250 million in federal funding through the lawmaker, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and sources familiar with the funding requests. The center then channeled a significant portion of the funding [...] |
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