John Murtha does look out for his constituents. He is not loath to give them our money. The most recent beneficiary of his largesse to be come known is Mountaintop Technologies, which was started in 1993 to make and sell computer-based training. Since then, it has branched out to a wide variety of fields – distributing grants ($10,000,000 so far) to small police forces in Murtha’s district, robotics, battlefield anesthesiology, emergency communications, airport management and autism therapies. Over the past eight years, we’ve given Mountaintop $36,000,000. The firm did spend money to get this money; they’ve paid lobbyists, including Murtha’s brother, $725,000 since 1999
Why the firm is needed is a question. They seldom face competition; in only 11% of their contracts have they won against another firm. Their profit margins apparently are not bad; they took in $121,000 to distribute $1,800,000.
How long will Murtha last before being indicted?
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