Contractor Accused of Death Threats

[Demeter]

Source: AP



LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A military contractor under investigation on allegations he overbilled and did faulty repair work on Navy and Army aircraft has been charged with threatening to kill witnesses in the case, according to a complaint unsealed Thursday.

Keith E. Shaw, owner of Shaw Aero in Louisville, traveled to Tennessee to buy explosives as part of a plot to blow up his former business partner's plane, according to an affidavit filed in federal court by an investigator for the U.S. Department of Defense.

Shaw was arrested Wednesday by deputy U.S. marshals...

Camper said the department has been investigating Shaw for three years for allegedly defective repair work on Navy fighter jets and Navy Seahawk and Army Blackhawk helicopters. He has not been charged in the contracting investigation.
The DOD investigation also focuses on allegations that Shaw billed for work not done on the LN-93 Laser Navigation System, which is used on the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Camper wrote that investigators served two search warrants on Aug. 4 and Aug 6 related to that allegation. Camper said Shaw is also accused of telling employees to fraudulently repair solid state gyros, which are used to measure and maintain stability in Blackhawk and Seahawk helicopters. Both allegations stem from an investigation that Shaw did defective repair work on the inertial navigation system for F-5 jets used by the Navy to train pilots. Camper wrote that former business partner Dean Dickinson and ex-employee Andrew Brown, along with four confidential informants, provided information about Shaw during the investigation.

At least three confidential informants said Shaw repeatedly talked about killing Dickinson, becoming more serious over time, Camper wrote.



Read more: http://www.military.com/news/article/August-2009/contractor-accused-of-death-threats.html

[leveymg]

1. Why is it so hard to cancel a DoD contract? Why did this guy keep his contract for 3 years?

This is insane.

[denverbill]

2. From opensecrets.org

SHAW, KEITH
LOUISVILLE,KY 40205 3/26/03 $-5,000 National Republican Congressional Cmte (R)
SHAW, KEITH E
LOUISVILLE,KY 40205 12/24/02 $1,000 National Republican Congressional Cmte (R)
SHAW, KEITH E
LOUISVILLE,KY 40205 8/21/02 $500 National Republican Congressional Cmte (R)
SHAW, KEITH E MR
LOUISVILLE,KY 40205 SHAWAEROINSTRUMENTS 2/25/03 $5,000 National Republican Congressional Cmte (R)

Surprise, surprise.

Well, I guess the -$5,000 is a little surprising.

[No Elephants]

4. Chump change, really.

[Demeter]

7. The NRC Ddin't Turn It Down, though

and that's only what they HAD to report.

[Turbineguy]

3. Note to crooked defense contractors:

A republican administration is bound to come to an end.

[NJCher]

5. shades of Blackwater

this is no different than how the Mafia operates.

Cher

[ScottLand]

6. How come we only hear about the contractors

that are violent criminals?

[Demeter]

8. Because We Want Them Evicted, Convicted and Punished?

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. I think I'll rephrase that. "Gee.... I don't know. Why would that be?" Spreading peace, democracy

and freedoms all over the world. It seems so anomalous.

[ScottLand]

10. Well, what I had meant was

there HAS to be somebody out there that's not completely corrupt. I just haven't heard of them yet. Maybe it goes with the territory.

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. Well, I don't think it's propitious for the health of the soul to be involved in armaments, though

there are bound to be degrees of guilt and innocence among those involved. I had no idea how normal it was for wars to be based on villainy, until I read General Smedley-Butler's brief tract, War is a Racket, on the Net.

No-one can doubt, I think, that the Allies in WWII were the good guys, and the Nazis, overtly satanic. Yet, I've come to realise that substantial blame for the very rise and success of the Nazis and the Black Shirts, falls on our own leaders and the monied people who supported them in large numbers. Mussolini and Hitler were very much admired and glorified by them before the war. That they saw them as bastions against Communism doesn't wash with me one iota.

[ScottLand]

12. I agree.

There has always been much more to the story than the history books reported.

[DCKit]

13. Yet another BushCo* beneficiary banking on a Gramps/Gidget win in 2008.

So sorry we spoiled your party. The consolation prize is free health care - behind bars.