Report: Justice Department Probes Contractor With Murtha Ties

FoxNews ^ | 5-25-2009 | FoxNews

[Danae]

The Department of Justice is probing a Pennsylvania contractor that has won millions in earmarks and contracts with the help of Rep. John Murtha, according to a new report.

The Washington Post reported Monday that federal investigators are looking into how Mountaintop Technologies got involved in distributing and monitoring local police grants. +++++++++SNIP++++++++++++++ Mountaintop Technologies founder David Fyock told the Post that his company won the contracts on merit. "We are pretty darn good at managing contracts," he said.

[Danae]

Yes sir you are pretty good at manipulating contracts. You had a good teacher in manipulation and lots of practice.

I am SO SICK of corruption in Government.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“I am SO SICK of corruption in Government. “

Two words - ‘Term Limits’. No one should ever be in a federal office of any kind for more than 10 years. No matter what. We should never have career politicians of any kind.

[Logical me]

What a waist of time. Nothing will happen. All the RATS are protected by King Obama and his communists RATS.

[Ev Reeman]

Here is just a partial list of Congressmen and women whose business relationships, campaign contributions, and their other financial activities involving lobbyists and payola should be thoroughly investigated:

John Murtha

Chris Dodd

Nancy Pelosi

Harry Reid

Barney Frank

Chuck Schumer

[Danae]

5 Years is too long. It virtually BEGS for corruption to take over. Government at the elected level should NOT be a career.

[Danae]

Add:

Maxine Waters
John Conyers

[Always Right]

Murtha is so corrupt. They need to investigate some of Murtha’s relatives too. He has been feeding so many people with non-competitive mandated contracts. It is a nice negotiating tool when the law mandates a certain company gets the work. Murtha built the company DRS on such contracts.

[mrsmel]

It seems that Murtha and his associates have all adopted the “offend to defend” tactic. Murtha insults his constituents, says “So what” and gets re-elected. Murtha’s minions threaten political opponents, shrug their shoulders and defy anyone to do anything about it, and get away with it. The winners of shady contracts connected to Murtha say “So what, we would be the best choice anyway, why does it matter how we got them” and dare anyone to get in the way. Murtha is nothing but a thug criminal surrounded by thugs.

[centurion316]

We are pretty darn good at managing contracts

Thousands of defense contractors are pretty darn good at managing contracts, and many are honest and do not donate thousands to politicians. The hard part is winning the contract, and to do that you have to be both good and price competitive - unless of course you get an earmark without competition - then all that matters is your connection to a politician, hopefully a crooked one.

[mrsmel]

I totally agree. I used to be against term limits, but that was back when I still naively believed that at least a few good men were there to uphold the original concept of “public service”. I don’t hold that belief anymore about any of them. The good men who would be an asset in public service and a servant to the people, wouldn’t be able to stomach the dirty tricks required to attain the office, and especially to stay in the office in the present political climate of double-dealing, shady ethics, questionable character, word-parsing or outright lying. They’d be flattened under the juggernaut.

[freema]

PING!

[Ev Reeman]

Remember those hicks from “Deliverance”? Those are the kinds of people Murtha compared his Pennsylvanian constituents to. How insulting is that. If these same Pennsylvanians reelected this jerk then they deserve him.

[Tai_Chung]

Yes, we need Term Limits. It’s also time for a Balanced Budget Amendment.

[jazusamo]

The article by Carol Leonnig of the Washington Post mentioned in this article.

Justice Dept. Investigates Pa. Contractor Tied to Murtha

Thanks for the post, Danae and the ping, freema.

[cbkaty]

Add Feinstein.....

[monocle]

If elected politicians are servants of the people, please explain to me why when Congress holds hearings these servants are seated so they can look down those testifying.

The term "servant of the people" rankles me to no end. Most, if not all, politicians act and demand that they be treated as royalty.

[Ev Reeman]

Most if not all politicians are not “servants of the people”. They used to be. Not anymore. Now they are all encompassing self-serving self-promoting bureaucratic paper shufflers who don’t give a damn about the country or its citizens.