Thread: Rep John Murtha (deceased) was being investigated by FBI

Damn - whodathunk it?

FBI was investigating Rep. John Murtha for possible corruption, new records show - The Washington Post

Several months before Rep. John Murtha died, the FBI was moving to expand its ongoing investigation of the powerful lawmaker into a full public corruption probe, newly released records show.

By June 2009, the FBI had homed in on Murtha’s relationship with KSA Consulting, a lobbying firm where Murtha’s brother worked and whose clients won millions of dollars in Murtha-steered earmarks. The investigation suggested that several defense companies that used KSA were “suspicious” entities, sometimes sharing the same business address as KSA, the documents say.

FBI Saw Dark Side of Rep. John Murtha : Roll Call News

Bits and pieces of this story were kicked around for years before Murtha died in February 2010. The Los Angeles Times, Roll Call, the Washington Post and others had documented the odd appearance of earmarks for tiny defense contractors that just happened to open an office in western Pennsylvania and just happened to hire one of the lobbying firms close to Murtha and just happened to begin making campaign donations to Murtha and other Members of Congress close to him.
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In a memo dated June 19, 2009, FBI field agents requested the bureau “open a full public corruption investigation” regarding KSA Consulting, the lobbying firm that employed at various times the Congressman’s longtime defense aide Carmen Scialabba and the Congressman’s brother, Robert Murtha, widely known as Kit.

The FBI field agents concluded that “the relationships between Congressman John Murtha ... and employees and partners of KSA Consulting provide for a potential Honest Services Fraud ... if Congressman Murtha influenced the awarding of contracts to KSA-controlled entities or clients, in exchange for some personal benefit to the Congressman. KSA principals may also have committed Honest Services Fraud by lobbying Murtha to direct earmarks to KSA clients who ‘passed-thru’ the funds to subcontractor firms that did little actual work and were owned by KSA principles.”

I wonder why no charges been filed on people still living that were connected to the investigations. Hmmm.

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

Cronies in office still.

Very likely. I also think it's interesting that people are shielded from FOIA requests while they are living. Is that just for "government workers" or is that for everyone? I honestly don't know.