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October 30, 2009

US Awards $1.2B in Stimulus Contracts to Scandal-Linked Firms
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In related news, a Washington Post analysis has found that government
agencies are failing to heed the Obama administration’s instructions to
avoid granting stimulus contracts to scandal-linked firms. Government
agencies have awarded more than $1.2 billion in stimulus contracts to at
least thirty companies that watchdog groups have ranked as among the
worst violators of state and federal laws.



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