Top ranking Air Force Officer suicide after WaPo investigation...

[Didereaux]

Oddly the Air Force cannot seem to get their stories straight.... lots of conclusions to be drawn.
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Procurement Official Questioned About No-Work Deal Found Dead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/15/AR2007101501754.html?hpid=topnews
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 16, 2007; Page A06

The Air Force's second-highest-ranking procurement official was found dead Sunday night at his Virginia home in an apparent suicide, an internal Air Force memo said.

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The article said that while waiting to be confirmed for his Pentagon post, the Air Force arranged a job for Riechers at the Commonwealth Research Institute but said he that did no work for the firm. Instead, Riechers said he worked for Sue C. Payton, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition.
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The Air Force defended the arrangement, saying Riechers did work in support of the Air Force through a Commonwealth Research Institute contract.
"During his two month employment with CRI, Mr. Riechers was employed in a scientific and engineering technical assistance capacity to the Air Force and made recommendations that were instrumental in engineering our acquisition transformation and continuing the Air Force's modernization of our aging fleet," Lt. Col. Edward Thomas, an Air Force spokesman, said in a statement. Riechers retained "our full support" after the newspaper report and subsequent questions from the Armed Services Committee, he said.

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