http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/26/waxman-mzm-white-house/
March 26, 2007
Waxman Demands Info Linking White House To Cunningham Probe And
Possible Attorney Firing
Last Monday, ThinkProgress questioned whether fired U.S. attorney
Carol Lam was targeting the White House prior to her dismissal.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/19/carol-lam-white-house/
We noted the following information that stemmed from Lam’s
investigation into former Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-CA):
the White House awarded a one-month, $140,000 contract to MZM
contractor Mitchell Wade, who had never previously held a federal
contract.
Two weeks after Wade got paid, he used a cashier’s check for exactly
$140,000 to buy a boat for a now-imprisoned congressman (Cunningham)
at a price that the congressman had pre-negotiated.
Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry
Waxman (D-CA) wrote a letter to White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten
demanding “all contracts, subcontracts, and task orders between MZM,
Inc. … and the Executive Office of the President“:
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1227
According to the Federal Procurement Data System, the Executive Office
of the President awarded a one-month, $140,000 contract to MZM, Inc.
in July 2002.
This appears to have been the company’s first prime contract with the
federal government, and it came only two months after MZM was placed
on the General Services Administration’s Federal Supply Schedule.
Published reports suggest that the contract was to provide computers
and office furniture to the Office of the Vice President.
Subsequent investigations have uncovered serious inegularities, and in
some cases criminal conduct, by MZM employees, members of Congress,
and Bush Administration officials relating to MZM contracts with the
federal government.
To date, however, there has been no examination of the circumstances
surrounding MZM’s initial federal contract and the role that White
House officials played in the award and execution of the contract.
In the letter, Waxman requests that the White House provide documents
relating to the White House-MZM contracts as soon as possible, but in
no case later than Friday, April 6.
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