Congress members call for probe of information ops program

USA Today Thursday 1st March, 2012

The request from Rep. John Tierney of Massachussetts, the ranking Democrat of a panel on oversight of the military, cited a USA TODAY investigation published Wednesday that showed that the owners of Leonie Industries, the top information operations contractor in Afghanistan, have liens against them for more than $4 million for unpaid federal taxes. "It is deeply concerning to me that the same company whose owners are not meeting their tax obligations has been awarded Army contracts that could surpass $130 million," Tierney wrote to Lynne Halbrooks, the Pentagon's acting inspector general. "Families in my district and across the country are playing by the rules and struggling to make ends meet.

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