Records for nuclear missile parts allegedly falsified

[DoYouEverWonder]

Nov 19, 2005

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The owners and an employee of a now-defunct Florida company have been charged with falsifying test records for metal that was to be made into nuclear missile components.

A two-count fraud indictment returned Wednesday accuses Timothy J. Muldoon, 53, and Tina A. Muldoon, 46, and sales manager Russell B. Cohen, 47, of forging test documents to show they had performed required quality testing on 48 metal bars.

The company won a contract in 2003 to supply metal to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, which manages a plant in southern Kansas City for the U.S. Energy Department. It makes non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons.

The metal bars were to have been used for a cylinder housing a system "designed to prevent inadvertent nuclear detonations," according to the indictment.

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[acmavm]

1. "designed to prevent inadvertent nuclear detonations,"

This is so beyond dishonest it's dispicable. I can't even express how disgusted I feel right now about these people and their greed. Sort of like the pharmacist that diluted the drugs that cancer patients relied on to stay alive.

[lonestarnot]

2. Holy crap!

Having a cow here! These people definitely deserve a teddy bear award!
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[0007]

7. How about a "Cowch" Cow?

Honeywell employees became suspicious in October 2003 when they noticed the documentation for the 48 metal bars was identical.

Agents from the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense raided the company's headquarters in February 2004.(Is this a joke? Can the Department of Defnse raid the Department of Energy?)

The forged documentation cost the government $56,386, including labor by Honeywell, retesting, and the cost of unusable material, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Kansas City.


Is the Red Cowch on the Cow lying lips or a big asshole?

[UpInArms]

3. WTF? I'm not sure what is making me the craziest anymore!

The corrupt corporatists or the corrupt corporatist government?

A full sweep of all those in power and their warmongering military industrial complex and the corruption that is rampant throughout the corporations (lying regarding test results, lying regarding accounting, lying regarding anything and everything) - seem to travel hand-in-hand.

[truthisfreedom]

4. why? because of the culture of corruption. bushco has destroyed all

real businesslike practice in this country. there is no accountability, no truth, and nobody left to trust.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. That's BushCo's goal

to destabilize and destroy everything. You would think the people in the WH were a bunch of anarchists.

[Blue Diadem]

6. ummm..what's a "global" settlement?

That phrase leads me to believe other countries are involved. Does anyone know what that term means? I can't imagine the word global would be used for both Florida's charges and this one.


snip:

The Muldoons were to have pleaded guilty to fraud charges in Florida in early November. But on Nov. 1, prosecutors and defense lawyers asked for a delay, noting that the Muldoons' lawyers had traveled to Kansas City to discuss a "global settlement of all charges."

[noamnety]

8. M&M International Aerospace Metals

On Edit: Found their company name. That seems like a curious detail to leave out of a news article.

http://www.mmaerospacemetals.com/

This is a Tina D. Muldoon, though, and the article says Tina A. Muldoon. It's definitely the right company, though.

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/mow/news2005/muldoon.ind.pdf


I see Tina, the CEO, is a licensed cosmetologist.

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