On July 1 2005 Rep. Virgil Goode made a lame offer to refund dirty MZM contributions. Today, one year later, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has accused MZM facility manager Richard Berglund “of ‘aiding and abetting’ a scheme by MZM’s owner to donate the funds in the name of others,” Jeffrey Smith reports in today’s Washington Post. That’s the same Richard Berglund that MZM let go a month and a half ago, presumably knowing that this court filing was coming down the pike. Berglund’s crime? Illegally funneling money to Rep. Virgil Goode.
The Post points out that Berglund gave $4,000 to Rep. Goode while not making any other contributions to any other candidates, as I discovered about in June of last year. In fact, none of MZM’s extraordinarily generous employees gave to any other candidates, save for Reps. Katherine Harris and Duke Cunningham; Harris is now embroiled in the MZM scandal, while Cunningham is serving an eight year prison sentence. In May, Cunningham agreed to rat out everybody else in this slowly-expanding scandal — that news came out just two days after word of Berglund’s firing from MZM.
Rep. Goode continues to claim that he had absolutely no idea that this money was coerced, that there were any straw donors, or that there was any pay-for-play in Goode’s securing of $9M for MZM just three months after he received nearly $100k from MZM employees.
It has been interesting — and educational — watching this whole affair slowly play itself out. Individuals closer and closer to Rep. Goode are being nabbed; Berglund’s cooperating presumably brings investigators closer still to Goode. If he’s really so clueless about his donors and their clearly suspicious contributions it does not speak well of the man. If, on the other hand, he was actually part of this criminal conspiracy, it speaks worse still of him.
I return to the question, for Virgil, of “What were the contributions for?” Virgil has defended himself by insisting that this (a facility that the Pentagon didn’t request doing a job the Pentagon didn’t ask to be done) was a great deal for Martinsville and his job-starved Southside constituents. Well, then, let’s go back to the above question: If the deal was so great, if it was so sweet to have the jobs in Martinsville, why did it take larding all that contributor cash into his campaign fund to make it happen? Shouldn’t the sweetness of the deal for his constituents be enough? Seems to me that the proper inference is that Goode wasn’t interested in the welfare of his constituents if that welfare wasn’t escorted by 80 grand.
Al needs to reduce this complicated story into a 5 word soundbite and get it in every ear in the 5th. nufsaid.
I’d Rather Be Gay
Than Representative “A”
“its Goode to be a crook”
“Virgil sold out Martinsville”
The WP also said that “[Wade’s] plea stated that Wade did not inform Goode or his staff that the donations were illegal.”
Anyone who has been following this saga must agree that Wade has demonstrated an extremely cooperative attitude in helping investigators. He also withheld nothing with regard to the level of bribery that went on between him and Congressman Cunningham.
With these facts in mind, why would Wade protect Goode? The only logical conclusion is that he’s spilling his guts on this issue as he has with everything else. So just like every congressman receives donations at the limit from many sources, Goode received a number of them directly from Wade in the names of MZM employees. Nothing overly fishy on the face of it, and Wade didn’t tell him otherwise.
Why is it so hard to accept? Granted, we all realize that since Goode is a Republican, it’s easy and natural to go for the jugular on this one, but the facts just aren’t with you.
Individuals closer and closer to Rep. Goode are being nabbed
Who are these individuals?
Berglund’s cooperating presumably brings investigators closer still to Goode.
This makes no sense at all. Berglund is further from Goode. He was an employee of MZM. Goode’s dealings were with the CEO who handed him the checks. So why would you say that Berglund is closer to Goode?
Okay, Publius: Answer my question. Why did Wade arrange for the $80,000 of campaign contributions to Virgil Goode? And, why did Goode accept them? If Goode had the best of intentions for his constituents in mind, after all, the money wasn’t necessary. Certainly not in that amount, which more than demonstrates Wade’s “good faith.” America needed MZM because of the value the company added to American security and the company needed Martinsville because of the value that Southside’s workforce added to the company. Seems pretty clear, right up to the point that someone handed Virgil all those MZM employees’ checks, many cut on the same day. By the way, the Republicans’ Party has an specialist attorney under contract to answer all questions regarding campaign finance law. He’s a busy man, but that’s his full-time job. He has a cellphone. He answers it. A lot. But, neither Virgil nor one of his staff members said, “I’m uneasy. Let’s call Bob about all these supposedly independent contributions.” Why not? Maybe because Virgil wanted the money. Maybe because the money for Virgial was essential to the deal. You know, the one that Virgil made for America and Martinsville.
There also seems to be this confusion of illegality with corruption. It’s possible to be bribed with legal contributions–some recent GOP scandals that resulted in plea bargains from House staffers involved only legal campaign contributions. Quid pro quo. And, corruption, selling off official influence, selling off constituents’ interest, campaign contributions are terrific tender for that.
“Go for the jugular”? I couldn’t be much more polite, cautious or reasoned in my writings about this matter. There’s no escaping that.
Wade had to spill on Cunningham because there was a paper trail (the $2.4M worth of gifts). He didn’t have to spill on Virgil unless he had reason to believe that the feds could prove he was withholding something. But sure, it’s quite likely Virgil did nothing illegal. Imagine the following hypothetical scenario:
Wade gives Goode a lot of money. Then he says, “You should put this facility in Martinsville, but the DoD is being difficult.” Then the next time he sees Virgil he hands him more money. Eventually Virgil secures the deal. Done.
I’m not sure that’s illegal, but when the DoD specifically said they didn’t need the facility, and when it is shaping up to be really bad for the city, that’s bad for the country and bad for the district. It’s only good for Virgil and MZM. That’s corruption.
the DoD specifically said they didn’t need the facility
People, contrary to how you might hear it referred to in the press, the DoD is not a single-minded entity, and never acts as one. It’s extraordinarily naive to believe that there are not competing interests in an organization of that size. Some in the DoD were (and are) very opposed to the FSAC because it might make them look bad. Others are very much in favor of it because the intelligence is necessary.
And if you actually believe that a single congressman can push through something like this when nobody wants it… well, I’ll just be generous and say that nobody with more than a room temperature IQ really believes that.
it is shaping up to be really bad for the city
Since when are high-paying jobs in a high-tech field bad for a locality? Unless you think Martinsville residents are only qualified to be factory line workers or baggers at IGA.
I think it is disingenuous to think that a Congressman on the House Appropriations committee (who also happens to be a lawyer and a former Democrat) would have no interest or knowledge of from whom and why he was getting so many donations. Hasn’t Duke Cunningham’s $2.4 million in gifts suggested that it is indeed possible for one Congressman to “push through something like this.” Is it naive to think that perhaps Mr. Goode was in the process of being introduced to the wonderful world of pay-for-play by Mr. Cunningham? As I look for the calendar links between MZM contributions and Reps. Goode, Cunningham, and Harris, it looks something like “Ok, you get some this month, you get some next, then you and then it’s back to me again.” I saw Waldo’s awesome charts yet I find it simpler to just look at it as a timeline for testing the waters. I believe the water is mighty deep.
Or, alternately, I. Publius is right — Cunningham needed help from somebody else on that committee, as Goode did. What an interesting coincidence that both Goode and Cunningham were on that committee.
IP, you might be onto something here.
You guys are really going to be disappointed when the FSAC keeps chugging along under the direction of a new company working under a new, re-competed contract (of course, that contract will be with the DoD that doesn’t even want it. LOL.) And won’t it be a shame to see Martinsville enjoy a thriving high-tech with no connections to the former MZM.
Then again, Virgil’s just out to line his own pockets. Right.
Then again, Virgil’s just out to line his own pockets. Right.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody suggest that Virgil Goode was lining his own pockets. It seems that Duke Cunningham’s personal weakness was “stuff”. MZM bought him with antiques, boats and a fancy house.
Those who know Virgil Goode tell us that this isn’t the sort of thing that interests him and that makes sense to me. He doesn’t seem to be the sort of man who needs “stuff”. Politics is the central focus of Virgil Goode’s life. I suspect that Mitchell Wade understood this and wouldn’t have bothered appealing to personal avarice in his efforts to corrupt Virgil. He understood that Virgil’s interest was staying in office and the best way to feed that was to direct money to his campaign treasury. Clearly, both parties got what they wanted. MZM got their earmark. Virgil got his campaign contributions. Was there quid pro quo? If MZM never got their earmarked funds, would Virgil have still gotten the contributions? If Virgil never got the contributions, would MZM still have gotten the earmark? (Not rhetorical questions – I don’t know the answers.)
Those are the real questions to be resolved. There’s no need to make up claims of anybody lining his own pockets. And it’s shameful to suggest that anybody questioning the motives of Virgil Goode and/or MZM has anything but the best wishes for the people of Martinsville.
“And it’s shameful to suggest that anybody questioning the motives of Virgil Goode and/or MZM has anything but the best wishes for the people of Martinsville.”
Virgil could have all the love in the world for the people of Martinsville. I want to know why it took a hefty campaign contribution to translate all that love into action.
“And if you actually believe that a single congressman can push through something like this when nobody wants it… well, I’ll just be generous and say that nobody with more than a room temperature IQ really believes that.”
Well, as loathe as I am to distract Publius from his War on Straw, that’s not exactly what anyone said. I am sure that there are a whole host of Pentagon employees who want, say, much longer paid vacations for Pentagon employees as a matter of national defense policy. They’ve yet to get their way with the principles. As a management decision, the upper eschelon of the Pentagon thought that MZM’s proposal represented a bad deal. And, assuming they did so because they thought MZM’s work would somehow embarrass them is every bit as plausible or implausible as believing that they pegged MZM’s proposal as a loser that was siphoning money off from other, more worthy projects. Was there support within the DoD for Wade’s proposal? Sure–perhaps from some of the very procurement officers whom Wade later hired. Would MZM have gone anywhere without Goode’s support? Doubtful. Would Goode have given that support without Wade’s campaign contributions? I have to assume not, since the basic deal could have been done without them and Goode hasn’t explained why he took them.
As for Goode lining his own pockets, that doesn’t clear him of charges of quid pro quo. Congressmen complain all the time of the chore of raising money. The task sucks up their lives. Most congressmen and senators find themselves back among their constituents or off on one or another trip to friendly audiences every spare day. Having money in the bank, enough to frighten off challengers, is a huge relief. If someone told you that he could free up your weekends for the next six months, that would count for a lot.
What’s shameful is to see people wishing for FSAC to fail and for Martinsville to be forced to return grant money to the state… since all of that would (hopefully) bring Virgil down.
But nobody would ever say that’s what they wish for. of course not.
There are plenty of Virgil-haters who have convinced themselves — facts notwithstanding — that he’s right there with Cunningham in terms of corruption. And I am 100% certain that those people will be extremely disappointed when FSAC doesn’t close its doors, but rather gets renewed funding from the DoD (yeah, that big gov’t agency that doesn’t want FSAC).
As I remember it, Virgil has expressed some interest in running for Senator Allen’s seat if it becomes available. Surely $80,000 would be much more useful for a Senate race – Just a thought.
Mr. Publius – your insults on intelligence and word manipulations detract from the validity of your opinion.
I think what would be most interesting is, in the (unfortunately) unlikely event that Virgil loses his seat, whether the Department of Defense would continue to need the Martinsville facility, at all.
But nobody would ever say that’s what they wish for. of course not.
Nobody, except I.Publius, that is.
There are plenty of Virgil-haters who have convinced themselves – facts notwithstanding – that he’s right there with Cunningham in terms of corruption.
Name one.
Name one.
Just one? Oh, why stop there? Try Josh, Leslie, Michael, Brian, Waldo, Evil and Harry.
Just as the nutroots have gladly sold their ideological souls in their passion to defeat Senator Allen, there is palpable vitriol aimed in the direction of Congressman Goode. Anything that hurts him politically is a good thing… (even if it also hurts Martinsville)… i.e., the supposedly impending failure and dissolution (either spectacularly or in a fizzle) of the FSAC.
And whether y’all admit it or not, it’s glaringly obvious that there will be immense disappointment when the FSAC’s contract is renewed. Many of us, on the other hand, will be happy for both Virgil and for Martinsville. :-)
(Though I suspect no one will quite as disappointed as candidate Weed.)
Just one? Oh, why stop there? Try Josh, Leslie, Michael, Brian, Waldo, Evil and Harry.
Thank you, I. I’m honored to be mentioned with their names. I was thinking this was about breaking the law, not politics and am not so sure that people in Martinsville want a facility there at any cost, especially at the cost of integrity and honesty. I’m not a Democrat, by the way.
Yeah. I’m so filled with Virgil-hate that I want him to explain exactly why he took a such large contribution from a defense contractor who appeared before his House subcommittee and whether it influenced him to help use the dire economic straits of Martinsville as an excuse to set up a graft factory.
I’m demanding accountability of an elected official. Politely. Stop me before I rage again.
I think Publius is displaying that all-to-common attribute of the right-wing ideologue: projection. Those of us who question our governors, at least when those governors belong to the Republicans’ Party, must be showing the lefty answer to the absolute, spittle-loosing allegience to the GOP cadre they themselves display. We can’t just think that Allen may suck at his job, to the extent he actually works for someone other than “George Allen 2008,” or that Virgil may have, in practical terms, siphoned some public cash into his campaign chest. We have to hate, or I suppose, Publius would have to display some skepticism, too. Maybe start doubting the Republicans’ Party’s platform a bit. And, that wouldn’t do. In fact, questioning our rulers is downright un-American.
Sorry. Gotta go help set up a fireworks display. Some kind of celebration is planned for later.
By the way: of course the Defense Department will renew the contract of the Martinsville facility. At least long enough not to embarrass Virgil Goode. The Republicans’ Party leadership is not stupid about getting and keeping power. And, it’s not their money what keeps the Martinsville factility’s doors open. What incentive would they have to close it? Good government? Public spending is, for these folks, a tool to expand their personal and Party influence. The facility stays open.
So now I.Publius has named me as a “Virgil-hater”. I have no hate for Virgil Goode. In fact, he was very helpful to me recently in resolving a problem with a federal bureacratic matter and I’m grateful to him and his staff for those efforts.
But, his political views aren’t very close to mine. He doesn’t vote the way in Congress that I’d choose for my representative to vote. I’d rather have a Congressman whose views more closely mirror my own. That’s why they call it the House of Representatives. I happen to believe that All Weed fills that bill very well. I hope Al beats Virgil in this fall’s election.
I don’t believe that Virgil’s relationship with MZM was the same as Duke Cunningham’s. Cleary, Cunningham sold out the public trust for his own avarice. I’ve already stated that I don’t think Virgil wanted or took any “stuff” to satisfy personal greed. I don’t know whether there was any quid pro quo relating MZM’s contributions to Virgil’s earmarks. Even if there was, I don’t know if that constitutes criminal behavior. Even if there was, I don’t believe that means Virgil ought to join Cunningham in jail. If there was a quid pro quo, I’d say that it more accurately reflects an institutional fault in the operations of Congress (earmarks) and the demands of funding political campaigns. Virgil is very skilled in the operating the levers of power and funding his campaigns.
So, will somebody please tell me how my views constitute “hate”? Can anybody explain exactly how I’ve indicated that I think Virgil is “right there with Cunningham in terms of corruption”? Or, is it just that those with varying political views have to be villified and branded as “haters”? Do some people just like being victims?
First you write that I “go for the jugular” with this post, and now I “hate” Rep. Goode? I can’t think of anybody who I “hate.” I oppose Rep. Goode, as I do many Republican elected officials. I no more “hate” Goode than I “go for the jugular” in what has been uniformly a set of calm, rational, even-handed blog entries about his MZM scandal.
Please stop inventing positions for me and others here. It’s extremely rude, and just makes you look foolish.
of course the Defense Department will renew the contract of the Martinsville facility. At least long enough not to embarrass Virgil Goode.
ROFL!!! So now the preemptive excuses begin to trickle in. Nice punt. Virgil must be one seriously powerful dude if he’s got the whole defense department in his pocket.
It couldn’t possibly be that the DoD will renew the contract because the FSAC is necessary… of course not!
rational, even-handed blog entries
Your blog entries about Virgil and MZM have been many things, but those do not include rational or even-handed. Nonetheless, I apologize for incorrectly labeling it as hate if that’s not what it is. That particular word was just shorthand for “grossly inaccurate anti-Virgil spin in the hopes that we can bring him down.”
Please provide me with any quotes from past blog entries that indicate that I have concluded that he is guilty of a crime, or that carry any insulting or disrespectful tone. (Hint: You won’t find any.) The fact is that I have been shockingly fair to Rep. Goode, to the point that it’s made me look a little foolish to some of my fellow Democrats.
“Go for the jugular”? That’s ridiculous, as you well know it is.
In the meantime, here’s Exhibit A of how very, very fair that I’ve been:
I really went for the ol’ jugular there, eh?
This is the point where you disappear, not to comment again for 30-45 days. It’s what you do every time you get backed into a corner, presumably in hopes that everybody will forget.
So you could dig up one little snippet from a year ago, where you played devil’s advocated with yourself. Bravo. That’s a lot like politicians who point out that they voted for something once (say, in committee), but neglect to say that they voted against it when it really counted.
Even Walter Pincus has given up the witch hunt against Virgil, and he’s notorious for finding a GOP bogeyman where none exists. The overall tone and spin of your posts about MZM have been glaringly slanted to insinuate that Virgil has been unethical. Particularly when the facts keep exonerating him.
“lame offer to refund dirty contributions.”
Gimme a break. What was lame about it? What would YOU have him do? And I love the choice of “dirty.” I’m sure that’s the adjective you’d use if it were a Democrat. “Dirty” implies that it’s obviously tainted to all involved at the moment it’s given — which, by the way, is the message you’ve been promoting from the get-go on this… that it was all one big quid pro quo, and no amount of contravening evidence will change that.
Individuals closer and closer to Rep. Goode are being nabbed
Who are these individuals? Why do you rarely answer these kinds of questions? It’s nothing new, though. It’s an impossible question to answer because there is absolutely no basis in fact. And ignore it is what you do every time you get backed into a corner, presumably in hopes that everybody will forget.
no amount of contravening evidence will change that
Don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind’s made up.
Perhaps a pool is in order here. A tiny little sideblog tracking the running odds of the day IPub (his real name is Felix) will return…or the supposed Navy guy Dell (his real name, ironically, is also Felix). Im kidding, dont encourage them.
If anything I have to say I find Waldo to be fair to a fault…even when I dont agree with him.
“The overall tone and spin of your posts about MZM have been glaringly slanted to insinuate that Virgil has been unethical.”
As I note above, there’s a distinction between corrupt and criminal. He took campaign contributions that were large enough, and illegal enough, to suggest a patron-client relationship with a government vendor. Since the MZM-Martinsville deal could have been executed entirely unlubricated by swag, it’s reasonable to assume said swag was important to Virgil. And, Virgil’s not really answering how it wasn’t–a very, very fair question.
And I, too, fault Waldo for using the term “tainted contributions.” They were illegal contributions. It was not illegal for Virgil to unknowingly receive them, but they were illegal to make. Virgil found himself tainted by their illegality, and wisely divested himself of them. As I likewise note above, the GOP (and Democrats) have lawyers on call to answer arcane questions about campaign finance law, at no direct cost to the congressperson. Virgil didn’t make that call, and he deserves to be asked why he didn’t. Either he was gulled, he didn’t want to give back the money, or he was worried that the lawyers would have advised him to call the US attorney.
I have to step in and defend (somewhat) Waldo. He has been polite and has never, to my knowledge, resorted to name calling or other moonbattery against Virgil. He has insinuated, hinted, and suggested that Virgil is either crooked or ignorant, but the actual words have never left his keyboard.
Seems to me I remember reading that the Pentagon never asked for the Martinsville facility, so it’s pure pork. (NGIC+MZM+Goode=Martinsville?) I wonder if Lieutenant Colonel Berglund ever worked at the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in Charlottesville, Virginia? Did all this dirty campaign money start it’s journey as contract money paid to MZM by NGIC? Surely the hard hitting legal eagles at Justice Department are now examining the many connections between NGIC, MZM, Mr Wade, Mr Goode, the Martinsville facility, and the NGIC efforts to silence their whistle blowers before Congress got interested in the Charlottesville goings on.
He has insinuated, hinted, and suggested that Virgil is either crooked or ignorant, but the actual words have never left his keyboard.
That’s a backhanded compliment if I ever saw one… and spot-on, too.
The continual insinuations and smug hints, sans evidence, necessitate calling “bullshit” from time to time. Trouble is, when Waldo gets called on something, he nearly always simply changes the subject. That’s a lot easier than admitting he was wrong.
But… hope springs eternal. I have the highest hopes for Mr. Jaquith’s honorable treatment of this issue.
IP, the fact that you infer something does not mean that I’ve implied it. You infer that I’ve meant bad things about Rep. Goode, but I’ve never said them. That, of course, is impossible for me to defend.
I infer that you hate America’s soldiers. Defend yourself. Prove that you don’t.
You can’t. My inference is not your implication.
Why do you ask questions to which you already know the answer?
First we had Duke Cunningham, who shared a committee with Goode. Then we had Mitchell Wade, head of MZM. Now we have Richard Berglund, from the Martinsville center.
Closer and closer.
Face it, your harshest criticism of my coverage of the MZM scandal is that I’m a Democrat and, consequently, I’d like to see Rep. Goode out of office. I haven’t lied, I haven’t exaggerated, I haven’t implied anything that is not so. I have been careful not to imply special knowledge of the proceedings (as I have none) or make prognostications. I have, in short, gone far above and beyond any standards of partisan blogging or, for that matter, column writing for a print publication. Your worst complaint is that you disagree with me. The difference is that my beliefs are on the record, under my own name, because I believe they’ll hold up in the years to come. All you can manage is to hide behind a pseudonym and throw stones, though you can’t find anything weightier than pumice. Boo hoo.
I’m glad to see you got my point Waldo. You’re asking Virgil to prove a negative and we all know that’s impossible. He can no more easily prove that he did not know the contributions were laundered than IP can prove he does not hate soldiers.
It is, however, possible for someone to step forward with real evidence that he did know, and should that ever happen I will join you in your condemnation of him. Until that point I approve of his political positions just as much as you disapprove of them.
Alton
Your definition of “closer and closer” is curious, to say the least. No doubt it took you days to come up with some configuration that suited your purpose.
It’s quite possible — indeed, very likely — that Virgil Goode met Berglund only once, if at all. He obviously met Wade a few times, though we can only guess how many. Wade was without a doubt the MZM contact closest to Goode. And Cunningham? Well, they served in Congress together for how many years, and on the same committee. One could make a far more rational argument that the people being nabbed in the MZM scandal are getting further from Goode, not closer.
But then, that doesn’t help the cause, does it? We (those who want to send Virgil packing) need the press to start looking at this is the way we want them to. Maybe if we say it often enough — true or not — somebody will pick it up, and the rumors can really start flying.
I’ll grant you your inference/implication point… but seriously, imagine a non-Virginian, with no knowledge of the politics involved, reading your posts about this for the past year. Do you honestly believe such a person would come away thinking that you believed anything other than Virgil is guilty as hell?
I agree with I’m Not Emeril 100%. Show me some evidence — just one shred of real evidence — that Virgil knew he was taking illegal contributions, and I’ll join the chorus calling for his ouster. I’ll encourage all my friends and family in the 5th to vote for Weed.
That’s fair, don’t you think?
Ok – for all of you who have never attended a corporate fundraiser before, and all of you who really have no idea how MZM functioned –
I attended a DC fundraiser for Congressman Goode in March of 2003. I also contributed to the MZM PAC. MZM was an extension of Mitch Wade – he knew everything that went on and no one blinked without his permission. At the fundraiser, all employees in attendance contributed because – listen closely – the Government was the Customer – you invest in the customer. All defense contractors have PACs and all of them donate to public officials. All of the checks written by the attendes were collected at the door and the final total presented to Congressman Goode at the end of the evening – by Mitch Wade.
In my opinion, Congressman Goode did his job – the one he was elected to do. He tried to get high paying jobs into an area that need some economic assistance. Mitch Wade fooled a lot of people – including many hardworking, honest individuals in Charlottesville.
Had I asked him that, yes, it would be unfair. But I haven’t. In fact, I’ve made a point of providing fair and reasonable questions throughout the past year, in hopes that reporters might put those questions to him. [Examples: 1, 2, 3.] Those questions include:
(Context may be helpful for some of these — just see the links.)
I think the questions that I’ve asked are fair, reasonable and generally polite. I haven’t asked him to prove a negative, I’ve just asked for information that would demonstrate that the positive is quite likely not so.
Wicked interesting, ExMZMer: thanks for your comment.
Question for Ex-MZMer:
Was the March ’03 DC fundraiser in DC for Goode the same one where he reimbursed MZM for over $3000 for “reception costs,” according to opensecrets.org?
I can’t seem to find that at opensecrets.org. Do you have a link?
Besides, is the claim now that Virgil was bribing MZM? I don’t get it.
FORSYTHE-NEWELL, SHANE
ARLINGTON,VA 22202
MZM INC./PROGRAM MANAGER GEOSPATIAC
4/7/2003
$201
Goode, Virgil H Jr
SABOL, SHERRY MS
ANNAPOLIS,MD 21401
MZM INC./ATTORNEY
4/7/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
SHENOUDA, SAMER
ALEXANDRIA,VA 22314
MZM INC./VICE-PRESIDENT
4/7/2003
$250
Goode, Virgil H Jr
WADE, CHRISTIANE MRS
WASHINGTON,DC 20007
MZM INC./V.P. OF FINANCE
4/7/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
WADE, CHRISTIANE MRS
WASHINGTON,DC 20007
MZM INC./V.P. OF FINANCE
4/7/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
WADE, MITCHELL J MR
WASHINGTON,DC 20007
MZM INC./PRESIDENT
4/7/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
WADE, MITCHELL J MR
WASHINGTON,DC 20007
MZM INC./PRESIDENT
4/7/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
BAKER, DANIEL F MR
GREAT FALLS,VA 22066
MZM INC./SENIOR EXEC. VICE-PRESIDEN
3/26/2003
$250
Goode, Virgil H Jr
BOYES, SANDRA MS
CHARLOTTESVILLE,VA 22911
MZM INC./VP FOR ANALYTICAL SUPPORT
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
BRAGG, FRANK B MR JR
RIVA,MD 21140
MZM INC./SPECIAL ASST. TO THE PRESI
3/26/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
COFER, JONATHAN H BRIG GEN
STAFFORD,VA 22554
MZM INC./SR. EXEC. VICE-PRESIDENT
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
GEIDE, KENNETH M MR
ARLINGTON,VA 22205
MZM INC./CONSULTANT
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
GREEN, WARD W MR
MCLEAN,VA 22102
MZM INC./INFORMATION SYSTEMS
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
HOLMES, DAVID P MR
ARLINGTON,VA 22207
MZM INC./ATTORNEY
3/26/2003
$250
Goode, Virgil H Jr
KING, JAMES C LT GEN
FAIRFAX,VA 22032
MZM INC./EXECUTIVE
3/26/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
KING, JAMES C LT GEN
FAIRFAX,VA 22032
MZM INC./EXECUTIVE
3/26/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
KINSELLA, THOMAS P
WOODBRIDGE,VA 22191
MZM INC./VP SYSTEM ENGINEERING SERV
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
MILLER, FRANK R MR
LORTON,VA 22079
MZM INC./EXEC. V-P FOR COUNTERINTEL
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
PEETERSE, GEORGE A MR
TROY,VA 22974
MZM INC./VICE-PRESIDENT
3/26/2003
$250
Goode, Virgil H Jr
PETERSON, LINDSAY D MS
WASHINGTON,DC 20009
MZM INC./COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
3/26/2003
$300
Goode, Virgil H Jr
PEZE, RICHARD MR
ALEXANDRIA,VA 22315
MZM INC./EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
ROSCHE, CHRISTOPHER F MR
ARLINGTON,VA 22204
MZM INC./SENIOR EXECUTIVE VICE-PRES
3/26/2003
$2,000
Goode, Virgil H Jr
RUBIN, SCOTT M MR
LEESBURG,VA 20176
MZM INC./PROGRAM MANAGER
3/26/2003
$500
Goode, Virgil H Jr
TAYLOR, JAMES M MR
SPRINGFIELD,VA 22152
MZM INC./SENIOR EXECUTIVE VICE-PRES
3/26/2003
$300
Goode, Virgil H Jr
VISOKAY, STEPHEN MR
RUCKERSVILLE,VA 22968
MZM INC./VICE-PRESIDENT TECHNICAL
3/26/2003
$250
Goode, Virgil H Jr
____________________________________________________
VIRGIL H. GOODE JR. (R-VA)
Expenditures
2003-2004 Cycle
Sort by Name Sort by Amount Sort by Date Sort by Description Top Overall Expenditures
Recipient Amount Date Description
MZM INC PAC, WASHINGTON, DC $4,879 4/19/2003 reception costs
NOTE: Where expenditures to financial institutions have a description of “see below,” the actual expenditures that make up the total are itemized as separate entries elsewhere in the report.
All the numbers on this page are for the 2004 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released on Thursday, January 19, 2006. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics.
__________________________________________________
I did not say that Virgil was bribing MZM, did I? I am just a dumb hick from SWVA. I ask the questions, you get the answers for me, and thanks.