{"id":12857,"date":"2009-07-21T11:37:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12857"},"modified":"2009-07-21T11:37:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:37:04","slug":"feds-one-step-closer-to-murtha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12857","title":{"rendered":"Feds one step closer to Murtha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/21\/defense-official-pleads-guilty-to-lying-about-ties\/?feat=home_headlines\">Washington Times<\/a>&#8216; Ben Conery reports this morning that federal prosecutors have secured a conviction of another criminal with ties to John Murtha;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal investigation into defense contractors, including some with links to Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, appears to be gathering steam &#8211; and valuable help.<\/p>\n<p>Mark O&#8217;Hair, a Defense Department program manager, pleaded guilty Monday to making a false statement on a federal disclosure form. He acknowledged lying about business ties he had to companies that received money from a military contract he oversaw.<\/p>\n<p>The plea agreement, reached in federal court in Florida, does not specify a penalty for O&#8217;Hair. But the plea deal does require O&#8217;Hair to cooperate with federal agents. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the boneheads in Murtha&#8217;s district won&#8217;t fire his monkey-ass, maybe the Feds can do it for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times&#8216; Ben Conery reports this morning that federal prosecutors have secured a conviction of another &hellip; <a title=\"Feds one step closer to Murtha\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12857\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feds one step closer to Murtha<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,22,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-john-murtha","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}