Cong. Jefferson, NASA and "US launch company" X

[docm]

As if NASA didn't have enough PR problems....<br /><br />http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/11/18/jefferson-and-nasa/<br /><br />Lessee....<br /><br />Congressman Jefferson is the Louisiana congressman one caught with $$$$ in his freezer in another bribery scandal.<br /><br />Michoud is in Louisiana.<br /><br />RpK is/was in Louisiana near Michoud.<br /><br />LockMart is in Louisiana near Michoud.<br /><br />Is Boeing there too? Anyone else?<br /><br />Hmmm.......<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p><b>Jefferson and NASA</b><br /><br />November 18, 2007 at 8:20 pm · Filed under Congress, NASA<br /><br />Sunday’s Washington Post reports that new allegations have linked Congressman William Jefferson, albeit tenuously, with NASA. Jefferson, a Democrat from Louisiana, was indicted this summer by a federal grand jury for soliciting bribes and reporting trips to Africa as official business. According to the report, in 2005 “Jefferson allegedly agreed to urge NASA in a letter to consider doing business with a U.S. rocket technology and rocket launch services company. In exchange, the company allegedly agreed to pay Jefferson’s family business and a relative.†The brief article doesn’t have any more details.<br /><br />The actual filing by federal prosecutors with the US District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, cited in the article (and available online for those able to jump through a few hoops on the court’s web site) has some more details, although it does not mention the company in question by name, referring to it only by the pseudonym “Company Hâ€. According to the filing:<br /><br /> Company H was pursuing a number of business opportunities, including commercial launch contracts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (â€NASAâ€) and the development and use of the former NASA Advanced Solid Rocket Motor facility in Mississippi and another f</p></blockquote> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

"Company H was pursuing a number of business opportunities, including commercial launch contracts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (â€NASAâ€) and the development and use of the former NASA Advanced Solid Rocket Motor facility in Mississippi and another facility in Louisiana."<br /><br />Solid rocket motor facility? Could it be ATK?

 

[thereiwas]

Weren't we wondering how come the RpK PowerPoint factory got a COTS contract?

 

[maxiumque]

"Weren't we wondering how come the RpK PowerPoint factory got a COTS contract?"<br /><br />RPK is not based there. Only final assembly. Little money would have been spent there