{"id":68739,"date":"2016-11-03T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68739"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:19:56","slug":"ig-bobeck-gets-pass-on-rent-free-perk-from-conractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68739","title":{"rendered":"IG: Bobeck gets pass on “rent-free” perk from conractor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michael-Bobeck\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

HMC Ret sends us a link from the Army Times<\/a> which reports that the Pentagon Inspector General has told Senator Claire McCaskill in a letter that it was entirely appropriate that Army National Guard Brigadier General Michael Bobeck got rent-free housing from a contractor, Peduzzi Associates, Ltd., when the general was tossed from his home by his wife when he was caught in extra-marital games.<\/p>\n

The inspector general found that the free housing…fell \u201cunder an exception to the general gift prohibition.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

However, emails obtained by USA TODAY show that Peduzzi officials kept Bobeck informed about the interest of a key client, Sikorsky, maker of the famed Black Hawk helicopter , as the Army and National Guard wrangled over a reorganization plan that had serious ramifications for Sikorsky’s bottom line. A draft letter in February that Peduzzi helped craft to key members of Congress on behalf of the National Guard Association requested that the Pentagon spend $367 million more on Black Hawks in 2017.<\/p>\n

Bobeck and Peduzzi had also negotiated a post-retirement job, which gave Bobeck a financial interest in Peduzzi’s continued success, USA TODAY reported. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the Pentagon IG’s office in concerned that there may be a homeless flag-officer epidemic looming on the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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