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As for Shaw- he sounds like a perfect advisor to Kerry in 2008:

At the same time, he began championing a company called Guardian Net, whose board included longtime friend Don DeMarino, to win a contract to provide a police and fire radio system to Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Shaw urged top CPA officials to award the contract to Nana Pacific, a small business run by Alaska Natives. Nana, which had no experience in the Middle East or in telecommunications networks, then planned to subcontract the work to Guardian Net, according to current and former U.S. officials and documents.
Under special federal contracting guidelines designed to help small and minority businesses, firms like Nana Pacific have the ability to win contracts of any size without going through the competitive bidding process usually required to protect taxpayer dollars.

Thanks much. I wonder if there are any links here to this individual, whom I regard as highly suspicious:

Origins of the India Caucus, the Foreign Lobbying Body for Offshore Outsourcing American Jobs to India

Robin Raphael, former assistant secretary of state for South Asia, is also one of the reasons, perhaps the catalysing factor, for the India Caucus being set up.

Note from Rescue American Jobs: Robin Raphael is the same person who announced her support for the Taliban in the United Nations in 1996.

The Left Coaster: UN-locking The Iraq Lock

A senior Russian diplomat suggested that the oil-for-food "scandal" is an invention of conservative activists in the United States who promoted the theory that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "Are they doing these hearings alongside with the WMD inquiries?" Russia's acting U.N. ambassador, Gennady Gatilov, asked a reporter. "I personally have very big doubts about any possible corruption on the part of the United Nations."

U.S. and U.N. officials say they have been aware of abuses in the program since late 2000. But they said they could find little hard proof until the collapse of Saddam. That's when Iraqi civil servants told U.S. officials the leadership charged a cash commission of at least 10 percent on every contract since 2001. "It was the ministry officials themselves who came to us and said, 'Here's what's been going on. Here is the system, here are the percentages,'" Robin Raphael, the State Department's Iraq reconstruction coordinator, told the Senate.