Steve Peacock
05-05-2011, 11:44 AM
-- Vendor Gets Yet Another Multi-Million-Dollar Award
A nonprofit whose vice president is a former Obama administration official has secured a nearly $100 million government contract in Afghanistan, raising concerns with at least one former U.S. State Department insider.
The executive team at International Relief & Development, or IRD, an Arlington, Va.-based organization, includes Alonzo L. Fulgham, whom President Obama in January 2009 had appointed as acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
(U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor (http://www.tradeaidmonitor.com/2011/05/contracts-obama-official-vendor.html))
A nonprofit whose vice president is a former Obama administration official has secured a nearly $100 million government contract in Afghanistan, raising concerns with at least one former U.S. State Department insider.
The executive team at International Relief & Development, or IRD, an Arlington, Va.-based organization, includes Alonzo L. Fulgham, whom President Obama in January 2009 had appointed as acting director of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
(U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor (http://www.tradeaidmonitor.com/2011/05/contracts-obama-official-vendor.html))