[snarkytart]

yes a defense contractor as an accountant correct? Was he an IRS agent? A contractor vs government employee are two different things.

[RC one]

In July, 1976 Paddock landed a letter carrier position where he spent two years before moving on to the Internal Revenue Service as an Internal Revenue Agent. While it remains unclear in which division of the IRS Paddock worked, a spokesperson with OPM says he spent 6 years with the IRS before he ended up in the auditing department of the Defense Contract Audit Agency.

[pepsionice]

He worked as a government employee for an agency that monitors and handles military contracts. As an audit guy, he would go and ask questions of the military officials to ensure that everything in the contract was being delivered, on schedule.

I’ve worked around these folks (from both prospectives). It’s typically a pain because they are looking for tons of paperwork, and trying to find glitches in the system.