huh?

how COULD this be? someone is on a government watch list for possible illegal activities and within a year they get awarded a multi million dollar weapons contract? HUH???????????????

Pentagon Contractor Was Suspect

Company Accused of Fraud Had Been Flagged by State Dept.

By Walter Pincus

Washington Post Staff Writer
AEY Inc., the company run by a 22-year-old Miami Beach arms dealer who was indicted last week for conspiring to defraud the government on a $298 million Pentagon contract in 2007, was on a State Department watch list for suspicious international dealings the year before that contract was awarded, according to testimony before Congress yesterday.
Both AEY and its president, Efraim E. Diveroli, were listed because they had been under investigation since July 2005 because of suspicion of "numerous violations of the Arms Export Control Act and contract fraud," according to a report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform at yesterday's hearing. ......