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fraud investigation. Government officials, private individuals and companies were eventually convicted of various crimes including nine government officials, 69 Washington consultants and 7 military contractors, as well as executives at GE, Boeing and United Technologies.
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by U.S. government and military officials, and private defense contractors. Charles "Chuck" Duff was the sole Air Force Action Officer responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing Air Force actions relating to the
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in 1981 by Republican President Ronald Reagan, was found to have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. He pleaded guilty to bribery and served four years in prison.
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was a three-year investigation launched in 1986 by the
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Index

Suicide of Tom Pappas
United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation
corruption
Department of Justice
procurement
Melvyn Paisley
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
James E. Gaines
Victor D. Cohen
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
Unisys
United States Congress
Procurement Integrity Act
"M. R. Paisley, 77, Dies; Bid-Rigging Figure - The New York Times"
The New York Times
Combatting Procurement fraud
the original
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Tapes of Alleged Pentagon Bribery Reported by NBC - latimes"
Los Angeles Times
Archived
"Archived copy"
the original
cite web
link
"This Day in GovCon History, June 14, 1988: "Operation Ill Wind" Raids"
the original
"Archived copy"

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