Posted on 10/15/2007 10:13:25 AM PDT by RDTF
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force's No. 2 acquisition official, facing scrutiny for a temporary job arranged by the service while he awaited Senate confirmation, was found dead at his home in an apparent suicide, according to an internal Air Force memo obtained by Reuters on Monday.
"Mr. Riechers was found deceased in his home, cause of death appears to be suicide, time of death is unknown," said the memo, which was issued late Sunday.
Charles Riechers became the principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition at the Air Force in January 2007 after working two months for defense contractor Commonwealth Research Institute.
The Air Force had no immediate comment.
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Riechers was hired by Commonwealth Research Institute at the request of the Air Force while Riechers was out of work and awaiting Senate confirmation for his new position. The job paid $13,400 a month.
Commonwealth Research Institute has close ties to the Pentagon and has received hundreds of millions of dollars in military grants and contracts in recent years, according to the October 1 Post report.
"I really didn't do anything for CRI," Riechers told the newspaper. "I got a paycheck from them."
-snip-
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Gosh, I hope you’re not in the wrong business. I’ve taken a tour inside a several simple prisons and jails and I know several who’ve paid a debt to society. The money they make is a pittance compared to normal outside life, and their quarters have a whole lot of steal, concrete, and hollow echos. It’s just not a nice place to be for humans. Maybe it seems like the prisoners are making a lot of money because their own overhead cost of living is paid for by the state (us tax payers). But I’m sure a lot of their pay check goes back into their own prison system. It’s a point of interest and deserving of public scrutiny. The ex-convicts I met were bored out of their minds and wanted to work so that the time would move faster.
Thanks for that reality check.
The people that are in our prisons would not have been the kind of people who the military would have wanted anyway. The present-day military needs intelligent, educated, honorable men. The days of putting prison-scrapings into uniform stopped being viable over a hundred years ago
“”....would not have been the kind of people who the military would have wanted anyway””
Conclusion: *parents have been raising more criminals than military patriots*.
Keep digging, boys and girls.
Just. Follow. The. Money.
It does require some time ...and reading comprehension skills, but I have faith in you.
...but...uh...you won’t like what you’re going to find...you won’t like it at all.
...and pay more serious attention to such stories as these.
They give you clues...like bread crumbs...
HINT: Ike was right. ...and so was a certain Old Corps Marine Corps general.
Very thoughtful post, thank you.
The conclusion, based on those statistics, is that we are raising more criminals than military qualified/motivated Americans.
http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/business/1192522575165740.xml&coll=2
Commonwealth and its parent company, Concurrent Technologies Corp., have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts from the Pentagon in recent years, The Post reported. The company, registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit charity, also has received more than $100 million in earmarks from lawmakers.
http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1192526223114750.xml&coll=3 "For two months, Riechers held the title of senior technical adviser and received about $13,400 a month at Commonwealth Research Institute, or CRI, a nonprofit firm in Johnstown, Pa., according to his resume. But during that time he actually worked for Sue C. Payton, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, on projects that had nothing to do with CRI, he said. http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003658688
An Air Force internal communication announcing Riechers death said that the cause of death appeared to be suicide. The sheriffs office is investigating the cause of death and could not confirm the appearance of a suicide.
But the Air Force released an official statement Oct. 15, saying Riechers had passed away this weekend, and that details of this incident are under investigation by the Loudoun County [Va.] Sheriffs Office.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_riechers_071015/
bump
Thanks for the Gannett propaganda link. Love the headline. /sarcasm
I wonder what Riechers knew about the runaway nukes.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.