Posted on 07/28/2006 9:04:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Two months before Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) became chairman of the powerful House Government Reform Committee in January 2003, one of his close friends formed ICG Government, a consulting company for technology firms seeking government contracts.
Donald W. Upson had risen with Davis through the burgeoning Northern Virginia technology community, where they worked side by side as executives at a company that sold computer systems to the government.
Davis went on to Congress, where he became a leading voice on government contracting and an advocate for his technology industry constituents in Fairfax and Prince William counties. Upson became the top technology official for the Virginia government before reentering the private sector and starting ICG.
From the beginning, Upson worked with Davis and his staff as he built his consulting business, which holds seminars on procurement and advises clients on winning government technology contracts worth billions of dollars. Those contracts often came under the oversight of Davis's committee. One of Upson's first hires was Jeannemarie Devolites, a Virginia politician who later married the congressman.
ICG has a record of satisfied clients, who say the firm has provided them with access to the congressman and his staff.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
As Bubba once said...if you can't reward your friends and supporters, why bother with politics...
Did this guy do anything illegal?
Don't think being a "techie" in a previous life, and then meeting with constituents as a Congresscritter really constitutes a "scandal-in-the-making"?!
Of course, I didn't read the whole article...! ;)
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