Dude! It's time to testify before Congress! 22 yr old Efraim Diveroli's $300 mil defense deal

[grassfed]

TPM http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/waxman_scheds_hearing_for_twen.php
Dude! It's time to testify before Congress!
House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) read the news today, oh boy. And he wants 22 year-old AEY President Efraim Diveroli, his 25 year-old VP (and masseur) David Packouz, and the company's general manager, also 25, to testify before Congress about how they managed to get a $300 million U.S. contract to supply (sometimes forty year-old) ammunition to the Afghan Army, among other contracts. Waxman also wants officials from the Department of Defense and Department of State to appear as well. He's set the date of April 17th.

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Committee Announces Hearing on Arms Contract
http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1828
Chairman Henry A. Waxman announced that the Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, April 17, 2008, to examine federal contracts awarded to AEY Inc. to supply weapons, ammunitions, and munitions to military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to the New York Times, AEY was awarded a contract worth nearly $300 million, but provided defective, unreliable ammunition, including shipments of Chinese ammunition, to Afghanistan army and police forces. The hearing will examine the company’s financial history, past performance, and compliance with U.S. law and government contracting regulations as well as the federal government’s efforts to investigate allegations that AEY may have violated U.S. law and government contracting regulations.

The following individuals are invited to testify:

Efraim E. Diveroli, President, AEY Inc.
David M. Packouz, Vice President, AEY Inc.
Levi Meyer, General Manager, AEY Inc.
Senior Official, Department of Defense
Senior Official, Department of State

[islandmkl]

1. there can't possibly be anything more to this story...can there?

might make some interesting summer reading soon...

[grassfed]

2. FL Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz is rumored to be connected

you may want to follow that angle.

[seemslikeadream]

5. oh yes a lot more to the story

Efraim was "a boy genius" who is "hard to control."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=199949&mesg_id=199949

[stellanoir]

3. Is that the kid that hustled the military and sent them thoroughly shoddy non functional equipment?

[grassfed]

4. Yeah. Check out the links or google. There's much out there.

[seemslikeadream]

6. It's all right here at DU

Efraim was "a boy genius" who is "hard to control."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=199949&mesg_id=199949

Why would I get in so much trouble for posting about it?

[grassfed]

9. What was the controversy on your thread? Hard to figure it out.

[seemslikeadream]

10. Yea over 50 posts deleted

I would suggest you look at posts #8, #21 and #24.

I'm not sure why folks couldn't stay on topic and resorted in personal attacks. But that is not too unusual for the dungeon, I'm used to it.

[grassfed]

11. why were they attacking you over this story?

[seemslikeadream]

12. I can't answer that but

none of the deleted posts refuted any of the facts of the story. There must be something about the story that they didn't like, that's the only conclusion I can come up with, or maybe they just don't like me :cry:

[grassfed]

13. what's not to like? You seem nice to me.

Have a nice weekend.

:)

[stellanoir]

7. I don't need to

Just more incompetence and waste.

Same old. Same old.

[seemslikeadream]

8. and

ILLEGAL