Reply #43: don't know if this will be helpful..just going through my files..

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DAILY BRIEFING
October 19, 2006
DHS extends contract with controversial limousine service
From CongressDaily


The Homeland Security Department has renewed a contract with a limousine service that was under investigation for allegedly providing prostitutes to public officials through a bribery ring.

DHS spokesman Larry Orluskie confirmed Thursday the department has extended its contract with Shirlington Limousine and Transportation Inc. of Arlington, Va., for one year.


The FBI earlier this year investigated whether military contractors linked to former Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. arranged for the company to provide prostitutes for him and other lawmakers. Cunningham pleaded guilty last fall to taking $2.4 million in bribes from military contractors.


"The fact that the department is instead renewing this contract in the face of everything we now know shows how resistant this administration is to any effort that would return a sense of responsibility and accountability to Washington," said House Rules ranking member Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y.


Orluskie said the department is only extending the contract until it lets a new contract to provide transportation.


This document is located at http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1006/101906cdpm2.htm



and then this...don't know if this is what you are looking for or not..fly


WH docs show Mitchell Wade was paid $140k two weeks before he bought Duke C a yacht for $140k.
Thu Apr-26-07 11:47 AM

From Laura Rozen's War and Piece:

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/006024.html


White House turns over docs on its 2002 contract with MZM. AP:contract with a company run by a man who pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had planned to vote on a subpoena for the

The White House has turned over to a House committee about 200 pages of documents related to a documents. That proved unnecessary after the White House delivered the documents Tuesday evening, said Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

Lightfoot could provide no details on the documents Wednesday.

At issue is a $140,000 contract awarded to MZM Inc. in July 2002 by the Executive Office of the President. MZM was run by Mitchell Wade, who is cooperating with federal prosecutors.


More <http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=V... |here>.

One thing I've recently learned is that the 2002 MZM contract with the White House was to scan email to the White House for threats.

This one month July-August 2002 $140k contract with the White House was the first contract MZM had received from the federal government as a primary contractor. It had previously -- circa April 2002 - jointly bid with Gray Hawk and a third company for a Pentagon contract with the Counter Intelligence Field Activity. Funny thing is, when it made its initial bid, MZM didn't quite have its Federal Supply Schedule contract approved - its application was still pending. Someone put his thumb on the scale at GSA to make that go through, and MZM got its federal supply schedule contract approved in May 2002. Less than two months later, MZM got the White House contract. And of course, a couple weeks after getting the $140,000 White House contract, MZM's Mitchell Wade paid $140,000 to buy a yacht which he gave to Congressman Duke Cunningham.