{"id":198709,"date":"2007-10-16T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/16\/top-air-force-procurement-official-dies-in-apparent-suicide\/"},"modified":"2007-10-16T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T02:46:00","slug":"top-air-force-procurement-official-dies-in-apparent-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/16\/top-air-force-procurement-official-dies-in-apparent-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Air Force Procurement Official Dies in Apparent Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t recall if I&#8217;ve written of this matter before, but while waiting for his white house clearance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/16\/us\/16contract.html?adxnnl=1&amp;ref=us&amp;adxnnlx=1192565163-4LN8n6j7\/6xNbRk3jwYFYw\"> Charles D. Riechers, was paid $13,400 a month by a private contractor, Commonwealth Research Institute, while he awaited clearance from the White House for his selection as principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition<\/a>.  He was paid for no work at all, which sounds suspiciously like a birbe<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Research Institute and it&#8217;s Parent, Concurrent Technologies Corp. are tax exempt, but their primary business is defense contracting, which is odd.<\/p>\n<p>This is freaky, and CRI and CTC are Jack Murtha&#8217;s best buddies, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attytood.com\/2007\/10\/we_warned_them_about_jack_murt.html\">Will Bunch notes<\/a>.  Frequently, Murhta&#8217;s press releases sounding as ife they were written by CTC PR flacks.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bunch has repeatedly warned folks about Murtha, and it appears that this may be hitting the news shortly.  Dead bodies have a way of getting journalists looking into things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t recall if I&#8217;ve written of this matter before, but while waiting for his white house clearance, Charles D. Riechers, was paid $13,400 a month by a private contractor, Commonwealth Research Institute, while he awaited clearance from the White House for his selection as principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition. He was paid for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}