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Title: Chairman Waxman Requests Information on White House Contract with MZM
Source: House Committee on Oversight & Gov't Reform
URL Source: http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1227
Published: Mar 26, 2007
Author: House Committee on Oversight & Gov't Ref
Post Date: 2007-03-26 17:28:51 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 144
Comments: 8

Chairman Waxman Requests Information on White House Contract with MZM

As part of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into waste, fraud, and abuse in federal contracting, the Committee has requested information on a $140,000 contract awarded by the Executive Office of the President to MZM, Inc. in July 2002.

The contract with the White House appears to have been MZM’s first prime contract with the federal government. Subsequent investigations of other MZM contracts had uncovered serious irregularities. To date, there has been no examination of the circumstances surrounding the company’s initial contract and the role that White House officials played in the award and execution.

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#1. To: aristeides (#0)

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007125.php

OOPS

(November 28, 2005 -- 11:54 PM EDT)

In the charges released yesterday against Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) by the United States Attorney in San Diego, the man identified in the 'information' as "Co-conspirator #2" is none other than Mr. Mitchell Wade, formerly CEO and founder of MZM, Inc., the man whose sweetheart purchase of Cunningham's house was the thread that started Duke's skein of corruption unravelling.

Now, Mitchell Wade has since left MZM to spend more time with his lawyers. But before his high-flying life as a corrupt defense contractor came to a grinding halt last summer he was into more than Duke Cunningham. Wade's MZM was in deep with Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).

MZM also has ties to a Republican congressman from Virginia, Virgil Goode. In the 2004 election cycle, Goode's largest contributor was MZM; its political action committee and its employees, including Wade, gave a total of $48,551, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Goode was the principal sponsor of a provision in 2003 defense legislation that called for the creation of a military center in his district, known as the Foreign Supplier Assessment Center, which MZM was hired to run, said a senior defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity.

The official added that the center, which is meant to check on the ownership of foreign companies that contract with the Defense Department, will do useful work, but was not a Pentagon priority and was not requested by the Defense Department. It was mandated by Goode on MZM's behalf, the official said.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-26   17:50:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=40

MZM Inc. 1523 New Hampshire Ave., NW Washington, DC 20036 Phone: (202) 518-5240 Fax: (202) 518-5241 http://www.mzminc.com

Company Principals:

Mitchell J. Wade President and chief executive officer

Joseph Romano Executive vice president for Analysis

Susan Hogan Executive vice president, National Security Liaison

Wayne M. Hall Vice president for Homeland Security and Future Conflict

James C. King Senior vice president

MZM Inc. is a high-tech national security firm based in Washington, D.C. The private firm provides intelligence gathering, technology and homeland security analysis and consulting for both international and domestic governments and private-sector clients. The firm also provides consulting on political and public message strategies. Its government clients include Congress, the White House, the Defense Department, the U.S. intelligence community, the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force and state and local governments, according to the company's Web site. MZM refused to provide any information, however, about its corporate structure, including names of other principals.

In addition to its D.C. headquarters, MZM has field offices in Miami, Tampa, San Antonio, San Diego and Suffolk, Va. The company employs about 70 people.

Following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, MZM expanded its counterintelligence and national security efforts. It soon experienced an influx of government contracts. The company now predicts a growth rate of more than 35 percent in the 2003 fiscal year. Mitchell Wade, president and CEO, reportedly expects to increase sales from $25 million to $120 million and to hire 230 more employees over the next five years. Wade told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that recently the company has "come out of a flat period" with defense industry contracts.

In September 2003, MZM collaborated with 16 other organizations, called the General Dynamics team, as part of a five-year, $252 million contract to provide engineering and information warfare services to the Air Force Information Warfare Center at Lackland Airforce Base in Texas.

In November 2002, MZM opened a computer center in Charlottesville, Va., to house classified engineering intelligence in a digital mapping and architecture analysis system. Twelve employees in that office are developing the program for the Pentagon. It is designed to provide digital maps of thousands of buildings worldwide. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the mapping system will help soldiers and planners know details of buildings—even which way doors open and close.

Also in 2002, MZM subcontracted with Information Manufacturing Corporation, a W. Va.-based company that won a $12 million Defense Department contract to open a 70-person intelligence operation in West Virginia. MZM will fill 30 intelligence analysis jobs for the project. (Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W. Va., reportedly helped IMC get the contract.) Joseph Romano, executive vice president for analysis, and James King, senior vice president, are directing this project. For an October press release put out by Sen. Byrd, Wade said, "We appreciate the support of Senator Byrd and the opportunity to work with IMC."

MZM is a member of the Association of the United States Army and a corporate member of the Military Intelligence Corps Association.

Iraq contracts On March 21, 2003, MZM received a $1.2 million contract from the Defense Department to send 21 interpreters to Iraq. MZM would not disclose any specific information about the contract. But, according to a copy of the eight-page contract, which the Center for Public Integrity received under the Freedom of Information Act, MZM will provide linguists to serve as interpreters for U.S. government representatives, ministries and other government offices, and during interrogations and investigations. The company will "provide collections of foreign language voice signals" and transcribe recorded voice communications. The contract also calls for MZM to "produce written and/or taped materials to support civil affairs and/or psychological operations (PSYOPS)." There are two amendments to the contract, but the Defense Department redacted descriptions of the modifications, and also blacked out the final, post-modification estimated price and the ceiling price for MZM's services.

Government ties Joseph Romano, executive vice president, is the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Technology Assessment Group.

James C. King, senior vice president, is a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, where he spent 33 years. King established and led the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, which is an agency in the Defense Department that collects and analyzes satellite images. NIMA is currently leading the U.S. government-funded effort to develop a spy satellite that can focus in on something as small as a person. Also, after failing to end public distribution of some topical maps of the U.S., NIMA announced a "review" of all publicly available maps of the U.S. King is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private organization that unofficially advises the U.S. government on matters of foreign policy.

Susan Hogan, executive vice president, National Security Liaison, worked for eight years on the Senate Appropriations Committee, where she handled classified defense spending.

Wayne M. Hall, vice president for homeland security and future conflict, is a retired military general. He commanded a military intelligence battalion during the 1991 Gulf War.

Updates The value of MZM's contract to provide interpreters for work in Iraq was increased to $3,640,896, reflecting updated figures released by the CPA.

—Brooke Williams

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-26   17:50:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Thanks, I couldn't place MZM at all. With so many growing and new scandals, I'm getting worried about the "flailing forward" into Iran.

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-03-26   17:55:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002877.php

Just one more tidbit:

"Carol Lam wasn't looking to prosecute corruption when she stumbled into Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes (MZM), Dusty Foggo, Jerry Lewis. The case originated because of local newspaper article (San Diego Union Tribute) about Cunningham's unlikely luck in selling his Encinitas home to MZM for far more than the fair market value."

Posted by: sdca Date: March 26, 2007 05:02 PM

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-26   17:58:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002877.php

Just one more tidbit:

"Carol Lam wasn't looking to prosecute corruption when she stumbled into Duke Cunningham, Brent Wilkes (MZM), Dusty Foggo, Jerry Lewis. The case originated because of local newspaper article (San Diego Union Tribute) about Cunningham's unlikely luck in selling his Encinitas home to MZM for far more than the fair market value."

Posted by: sdca Date: March 26, 2007 05:02 PM

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-26   17:58:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Yeah, IRAQ and 911 are getting buried.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-26   18:04:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

MZM contracts with White House removed from Federal Procurement database.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-03-26   19:11:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

They found it.

March 26, 2007 Whoops, I goofed. The director of government relations at GCE, the company that runs the Federal Procurement database, called me, from home, tonight, and spent considerable time helping me find the contract I was looking for, which is above and beyond what I would have expected from anyplace. For whatever reason, I couldn't find it today after a few hours of trying, and very helpful people at the Help Desk didn't see the contract either, perhaps our Internet connections were stretched, or some other electronic bug plagued us. In any case, thanks for all the help to the kind people at GCE, and, contrary to my earlier post, the contract is there, unmolested, in all its detail.

Posted by Laura at March 26, 2007 05:10 PM

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-03-26   20:57:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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