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Lockheed Martin Used Taxpayer Money to Lobby for more Taxpayer Money
allgov.com In the world of federal contracting, it takes taxpayer dollars to win more taxpayer dollars, or at least that’s how Lockheed Martin sees things. Lockheed Martin for years has been running one of the government’s most important nuclear research facilities, Sandia National Laboratories. Five years ago, its lucrative contract with theDepartment of Energy (DOE) was coming to an end, so Lockheed Martin started to lobby officials to win an extension. That lobbying included using some of the money paid by DOE for Lockheed Martin to run Sandia. Under federal law, this is a big no-no. Contractors are explicitly forbidden from using taxpayer money to lobby for more contracting work. But Lockheed Martin did it anyway, claiming they were just trying to better inform DOE managers when it came time to decide whether to give them another contract. The company hired a firm run by former Republican Congresswoman Heather Wilson to make its case. “This is, after all, how Washington usually functions,” R. Jeffrey Smith wrote at the Center for Public Integrity. to read more: allgov.com
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