The ranking Democrat on a House committee investigating contracts in Iraq released Defense Department documents on Thursday detailing faulty cost estimates by Halliburton for services in Iraq and Kuwait.
Since August, a federal grand jury has been investigating contracts with New Mexico won by a company that contributed heavily to Mr Richardson's election.
Ms. Garrison's office, which has 24 investigators to look into complaints against top defense and military officials, is a small part of the Pentagon's 1,600-member inspector general office, which more frequently investigates contract fraud and conducts audits.
As evidence of his independence, he said he had been the Democratic appointee to a legislative commission that investigated contracts for automobile inspection stations and the E-ZPass system.
Parliament's public-accounts committee wants more powers to investigate contracts.Some leading figures in the industry privately concede that the tendering model encourages buyers to choose the cheapest offer, rather than securing the best quality for the price.
Meanwhile, a pair of tormentors try to move in for the kill — Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin), the head of T.W.A.'s rival airline, Pan American, and Trippe's flunky, the corrupt Maine senator Owen Brewster Alan Aldaa), who investigates contracts that Hughes held with the government during the war.
Mr. Malloy admitted last year that he had told a witness to lie to a grand jury investigating a contract given to his brother in 1999.
Norwegian police said they, too, were investigating the contract, to see if it involved the "illegal influencing of foreign government officials".
The California legislature is investigating a contract signed between the software firm and the state's information-technology department in May last year and approved by the governor's office.
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