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Joe Petrillo: A $5 million deal that went bad

Organization conflict of interest. Non-disclosure of facts. Tampering with bids. This procurement had it all. It was only a $5 million deal for the Justice Depa...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

December 4, 2015 10:50 am

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Joe Petrillo, procurement attorney, Petrillo and Powell

Organization conflict of interest. Non-disclosure of facts. Tampering with bids. This procurement had it all. It was only a $5 million deal for the Justice Department. But sometimes just about everything goes wrong. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on the bizarre case of the contract where the Government Accountability Office threw up its hands and said, start over.