WAPO has an interesting investigative piece about a San Diego event planner who received a multi-million dollar no-bid contract federal in the months after September 11. Sunnye Sims was working out of her modest San Diego apartment when she landed the enormous contract, which required her to set up meeting facilities in hotels throughout the country to interview and hire airport screening personnel.
The report offers mixed reviews of Sims' performance. But something which does not appear to be in dispute is that she paid herself $5.4 million for nine months of work. She also gave herself a six figure pension.
This is the part of the story that got my goat:
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