Thread by @nimkef

30 June 2000
Rodney Joffe campaign donation to Heather Wilson for Congress

Note: Wilson was a member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet

fec.gov/data/receipts/…

31 Aug 2015

7. Revolving door. The top illegal lobbyist was former Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico. For a number of years, as Representative, she presumably was very friendly with Lockheed/Sandia of her area.

forbes.com/sites/charlest…

It seems possible from press accounts that on day one when she left office, they rewarded her by starting a $10,000/month lobbying deal.

8.“Most corrupt.” Those with a Washington memory recall that Heather Wilson was named one of the “Most Corrupt Members of Congress” by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington an ethics group led by Melanie Sloan.

9. Attorneys Scandal. Heather Wilson won national fame – or infamy -- during the 2007 investigation into whether the Bush White House – especially Karl Rove – got rid of 7 U.S. Attorneys for political motivations.

She had been a board member for Karl Rove’s “American Crossroads.” One of the 7 was New Mexico federal prosecutor David Iglesias. Iglesias was indeed booted. This whole scandal caused a national wave of disgust at raw political interference with the course of justice.

10. Wilson’s incredible denials. In particular, Rove himself named Wilson as asking Rove to get rid of. Prosecutor Iglesias. And, Iglesias says Wilson pressured him directly to prosecute someone of the other party. And her explanation?

She denies doing anything but asking for an update, just as she denies wrongdoing in this current illegal lobbying scandal. Yeah.

Neustar was spun off from Locheed Martin

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1487598368180342785?s=20&t=UmEKC_AO1nRDWzFnmkk8HQ

24 Aug 2015

Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle charges that it illegally used government money to lobby top federal officials to extend its contract to run one of the country’s premier nuclear weapons labs.

denverpost.com/2015/08/24/loc…

2009-14
Top execs for Lockheed Martin, who were being paid by the federal govt to run Sandia National Laboratories, ran a fierce campaign to lobby members of Congress & snr Obama admin officials for a 7yr extension of their contract, according to the DoJ

Lockheed execs, hired Heather Wilson to help them, didn’t just press people w/ influence to rehire them for a deal worth $2.4B/yr, as Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman disclosed in an investigation last fall. They urged them to close the bidding to competition.

“The money allocated by Congress for the Sandia National Laboratories is designed to fund the important mission carried out by our national laboratories, not to lobby Congress for more funding,” said Principal DAAG Benjamin Mizer, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

Mizer said the lab, a subsidiary of Lockheed, allegedly used federal money to lobby Congress and other federal officials from 2008 and 2012, “to receive a non-competitive extension” of its contract in violation of federal law.

Sandia National Laboratories, said the lab “has agreed to settle with the DoJ to put the matter behind us, take action on what we learned and focus on our important national security mission.”

Lockheed has contracted with the Energy Department to run Sandia since 1993.

Enabling Network Security Through Active
DNS Datasets

A Kountouras, P Kintis, C Lever, Y Chen, Y Nadji, David Dagon, Manos Antonakakis, Rodney Joffe

supported in part by Dept of Commerce grant no. 2106DEK, ... Sandia National Labs grant no. 2106DMU.

H/T @tpsinnem

Sandia Prep?

Save the date…..Track Pasta Dinner Reunion…..Thursday, May 6th from 5 to 8pm The Duran family (Tatianna ’07 and... bit.ly/9oLVkm

https://twitter.com/PrepAlumni/status/12463646892?s=20&t=ASCz4MFhWYuKwUfjH5hAAw

https://twitter.com/codyave/status/1271090445045559298?s=20&t=ASCz4MFhWYuKwUfjH5hAAw

Excerpt from guidance that former New Mexico Republican Rep. Heather Wilson gave Lockheed Martin officials to ensure that the company’s contract to run a premier nuclear lab would be renewed. (Source: Energy Dept. Inspector General)

I wonder if former Governor of New Mexico, former Secretary of Energy, former New Mexico congressman Bill Richardson's name is under any of those redactions

https://twitter.com/codyave/status/1490843533997076485?s=20&t=ASCz4MFhWYuKwUfjH5hAAw

More details about the Wilson - Lockheed - Sandia lobbying scandal (and source of the picture of Wilson's notes)

24 Aug 2015

washingtonpost.com/news/federal-e…

The Sandia sponsored Joffe research paper discusses generating DNS traffic

https://twitter.com/nimkef/status/1439793578897821698?s=20&t=ASCz4MFhWYuKwUfjH5hAAw

😲

25 May 2012

In 1996, the Journal reported Wilson, then head of the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families, ordered a file on her husband, Jay Hone, and his role as a foster parent to be moved from a warehouse to the CYFD offices

web.archive.org/web/2016102712…

Hone, a longtime youth mentor, was named in a 1993 Albuquerque Police Department report involving him and a male who was then 16 years old. Hone was not arrested or charged with any crime, and a subsequent CYFD investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.

Wilson, in the 1996 story, said she did not want a file with personal information about her family available to department employees and denied opening the file or taking it out of the department offices.

14 Nov 1997

Joffe:
"there are only two shareholders in Genuity, me and Bechtel, both of whom know exactly what Jon [Postel] could and couldn't do"

Bechtel knew all about Postel...

H/T @TrustIsEarnd

archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/ma…

Joffe:
"Bechtel never really had to make a choice about whether Jon [Postel] joined the board or an advisory board. I nominated him to the board as one of *my* representatives. They didn't know Jon [Postel] from a hitchiker before this."

... but Bechtel knew nothing about Postel

[Bechtel was buying 75% Joffe's ISP in 1995 and knew nothing about who Jon Postel was?]

Joffe:
"(December 1995 when I sold 75% of the company to Bechtel)"

archive.nanog.org/mailinglist/ma…

Joffe:
"I wanted someone clueful to help me guide Genuity along a *good* path, and away from the dark side (obviously I passed on asking you). I think I can proudly say that Genuity has been an exemplary internet citizen (I, of course, may not have been)"

Sounds like Gordon Cook, of the Cook Report on Internet Protocol, struck a nerve

Note: Cook passed on 18 March 2020 after complications resulting from an unfortunate fall

theconnectivist.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/the…

What's the answer?

14 Nov 1997

Kent W. England:
Could we inject some content in this discussion?
For example, how much did you [Joffe] and Bechtel settle for on the sale to BBN/GTE? :-)

John Curran:
Bigger than a breadbox, smaller than an IXC...
:-)

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