Fat Contracts Drift Toward Former Obama Official's Company -- Vendor Gets Yet Another Multi-Million-Dollar Award - U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor: "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.
The ex-State Department source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, lamented the revolving door process of officials moving between the public and private sectors, asserting that the potential for waste and abuse is immense.
Specific to Fulgham's role as IRD VP in the context of the Afghanistan contract, the source said 'there is nothing inherently illegal or unethical about it,' but still decried the arrangement as 'questionable.'"
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