Pentagon paid $1.7 million to firms of polygamy bosses

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The U.S. government paid more than $1.7 million in defense contracts over the last decade to companies owned by leaders of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect -- with tens of thousands allegedly winding its way back to Jeffs and his church.

The Pentagon had contracts with three companies with ties to Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect.

In fact, some of the deals were made after Jeffs was named to the FBI's "Most-Wanted List" and remained in place while he was on the run.

CNN has learned that between 1998 and 2007 the United States Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency purchased more than $1.7 million worth of airplane parts from three companies owned by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which practices polygamy."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/polygamy.pentagon/index.html

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Bringing new meaning to the term "Family Business"...

[ToughLuck]

1. Disgusting, what a disgrace..

Talk about Big Love..yuck.

[ourbluenation]

2. wow. two hellish worlds colliding. n/t

[Veronica.Franco]

3. The good ol'boys club is alive and well ...

And raking it in! ... huge surprise ...

[darue]

4. pathetic. all these contracts need to be awarded to dems from here on out

time to reward the faithful and impoverish the criminal. We need to make a few thousand democratic millionaires in the first year if possible.

[n2doc]

5. Notice that at least the first couple of years Clinton was Prez

So I doubt that anything will change. Whomever controls votes or $$$ will get the contacts, no matter how criminal.

[spooky3]

6. actually, we don't know from this article that $$$ were spent during WClinton presidency

The article just cited a 9/10 year time period but didn't state when the $1.7 was paid within that period.