The Nation : Consultant Admits Buying Information

Thomas E. Muldoon, a key figure in the Pentagon defense procurement probe, admitted in a published report that he paid other consultants for information but insisted the practices being investigated by the FBI have been going on for 20 years. In a copyright story in Connecticut’s the Hartford Courant, Muldoon said information he sought for clients was often readily available from government officials, and the companies did not ask where it came from. “I was not paying any government guy,” he said. But Muldoon said he did pay other consultants for information and did not ask where or how they obtained it. Muldoon was implicated through his consulting work for Norden Systems Inc., which was trying to obtain a Marine Corps communications system contract.