Nice work - if you can get it

POSTED BY: deadlockvictim
UPDATED: Monday, October 1, 2007 19:31
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DEADLOCKVICTIM

Monday, October 1, 2007 7:03 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/30/AR2007
093001402.html

Air Force Arranged No-Work Contract.
Experts Question Official's Deal With Nonprofit

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 1, 2007

Quote:
While waiting to be confirmed by the White House for a top civilian post at the Air Force last year, Charles D. Riechers was out of work and wanted a paycheck. So the Air Force helped arrange a job through an intelligence contractor that required him to do no work for the company, according to documents and interviews.

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.

sweet deal.... 13K to make paper airplanes and bend paper clips... wonder if he got any perks??!!?

SIGNYM

Monday, October 1, 2007 7:09 PM

I was going to create a separate thread for this article, but it ALMOST fits into this thread's topic, so here it is for your enjoyment.

Seven presidents nobody remembers
www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/28/forgotten.presidents/index.htm
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It's a helluva a lot funnier than thinking about our current leadership.

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Always look upstream.

FREMDFIRMA

Monday, October 1, 2007 7:31 PM

Indeed it is, Connolly has a wicked and incisive streak of humor, indeed.

I LOL'ed.

-f