Reprinted with the permission of the author:Larisa Alexandrovna comments on yet another angle to the Carol Lam firing, drawing on a story reported earlier by Raw Story:
It just occurred to me that Carol Lam could have been investigating allegations of bribery stemming from a San Diego water treatment deal. I broke the story with Miriam Raftery a while back, and the WSJ later "broke" it again (because crediting other people's work is not something the WSJ does). But why would a water treatment project be on Lam's radar? Read grasshopper and see for yourself (emphasis added), from my original article:
"An explosive report, obtained in part by RAW STORY, and soon to be released by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), fingers high-level officials both on the federal and local California level in allegations of influence-peddling ensnaring members of both parties.
According to documents and whistleblowers concerning a San Diego wastewater treatment plant to be built in Tijuana, Mexico, Vice President Dick Cheney, Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Bob Filner (D-CA), and former congressman and current Republican congressional candidate Brian Bilbray have allegedly advanced the project despite serious concerns from those involved."
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The proposed Bajagua Project is a secondary wastewater treatment plant for San Diego, named after the company, Bajagua Project, LLC, which was founded solely to get the no-bid contract for water treatment. The agreement is a private-public fee-for-service proposition that will charge the federal government billions. The estimated profit forecast for the project is upwards of $600 million dollars over a twenty-year span.
That kind of money is nothing to sneeze at folks.
Documents recently obtained by Raw Story and now also available at www.bajagua.org, a site set up by the National Security Whistleblower’s Coalition, indicate Cheney met twice with Bajagua officials, on October 15, 2002 and again on September 4, 2003. Cheney is alleged to have pressured the Department of Justice and the Council on Environmental Quality to give Bajagua a pass on clean water concerns and the no-bid contract for building the treatment facility.
In a letter to Cheney dated October 15, 2002, Bajagua Project manager Jim Simmons made clear that the Vice President had been instrumental in promoting Bajagua’s efforts.
“My colleagues and I are very grateful that you could spend some time with us in Roswell New Mexico on Monday October 14,” Simmons wrote. “We do appreciate your effort on our behalf and the wonderful job you and President Bush are doing for our country.”
I wonder if this is why Carol Lam got "pushed out?" Thoughts?
http://www.atlargely.com/2007/03/could_carol_lam.htmlOne more thought: Bilbray?? The illegally sworn-in Brian Bilbray? The Bilbray that then won a dubious general election contest with suspicious results and quashed recounts? THAT Bilbray?
Just when you think the water can't get any dirtier...they privatize the water treatment plants.
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