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San Diego Union TribuneIn the autumn of 2005, a mutual friend introduced Pamela Banks to a burly ex-Marine named Gary Alexander, at the time a high-ranking official at the secretive SPAWAR military research facility in San Diego.
Alexander had a simple proposition. He could get Banks hired as a subcontractor on government projects through his position at SPAWAR, and get her all the work she would want.
In return, Alexander asked for one thing: a 30 percent cut of the revenue generated from the contracts.
Banks agreed, according to federal court records. She set up a small company in her San Diego home dubbed Advanced Technical Solutions and over the next two years reeled in $325,000 in subcontracts for SPAWAR work.
Alexander netted $97,000 from the contracts. It amounted to a portion of what appears to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes he and his wife, Kelly, are alleged to have collected in a nearly decade-long bribery and fraud spree.
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More of the iceberg. This is DARPA-level stuff going on at the SPAWAR (space warfare) facility and the head guy has filed for bankruptcy FOUR times! How in the name of all that is good did Alexander keep his security clearence? Just more evidence of how the Bush administratiuon set an "anything goes" tone in government and another example of scams and schemes that will take years to unwind.