Posted on 04/25/2005 4:56:54 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
All three children of U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, worked in some capacity for defense contractors that were criticized by the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. General Services Administration for installing faulty or incomplete equipment for a border security technology system. International Microwave Corp. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. through their political action committees and others also gave Reyes about $17,000 in campaign contributions during the past five years. Reyes, who was in his El Paso district office Friday, said that while he was a proponent of the border technology system that the General Services Administration audit mentioned, he had nothing to do with International Microwave or L-3 Communications employing or paying for services provided by his children, Rebecca Reyes, Silvestre Reyes Jr. and Monica Reyes. Before working for the defense contractors, Rebecca Reyes worked for her father in his congressional office in Washington and for the city of Washington.
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Border Security Ping!
Please let me know if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list
Ping!
Another "Enemy within" that has been elected, ping.
If this were an R instead of a D, there would be a bunch of people on this sight writing in defense..........
Another form of Congresscritter graft.
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