Sentence due in Boeing tankers scandal

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Financial Times
By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Darleen Druyun, a former senior Boeing employee, is expected to be sentenced today for her role in the air-refuelling tanker scandal that has plagued Boeing and the Pentagon since last year.

In April Ms Druyun, a senior air force procurement official until she joined Boeing, pleaded guilty to conspiracy for holding job discussions with Boeing while she was still negotiating the tanker deal with the aerospace giant. She faces up to five years' jail and a fine of up to $250,000 (€201,000, £138,000). In return for agreeing to co-operate, prosecutors originally recommended that she be sentenced to no more than six months.

Boeing hired Ms Druyun in January 2003 after she retired from the air force, where she was in charge of negotiating the $23.5bn deal to acquire 100 refuelling tankers. Boeing fired Ms Druyun and Mike Sears, its former chief financial officer, 10 months later amid concerns about a conflict of interest.

Ms Druyun admitted holding job negotiations with Mr Sears before withdrawing from Boeing-related work and later conspiring with him to conceal those discussions. In October 2002, Mr Sears and Ms Druyun met secretly in Orlando to discuss jobs. At the end of the meeting, Mr Sears said: "This meeting really didn't take place".

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1. Another junior and cheney thug drops by the wayside

The Enron chief is fairly well insulated with junior in power. Wonder who Lay thought won the debate last night?

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2. The executors of Clifford Baxter's last will and testament?

or maybe the legatees....