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Federal agents raided two small Pennsylvania defense contractors that: were given millions of dollars in federal
funding by Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the defense appropriations committee and one of the mod powerful
men in Congress.
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Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Federal Bureau oi Investigation and an Internal Revenue Service
crimind unit.
In a statzement Thursday night, the Pittsburgh U.S. attomey connned that offices in Windber, Johnstown and
Summerhiil were raided as part of an ongoing investigation. A second federal ofllcial said that ties to
lawmakers would beexamined as partoftheprobe.
A spokesman for Mr. Murtha, Matthew Mazonkey, said, "We know nothing more than what we've read in the
press today, referring to an initial report on the Web site of the Tribune-Democat newspaper in Johnstown.
Messages iei't last night for Kuchera executives werent returned.
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Pentagon auditors have been looking at the use of earmarks, which are special-interest spending items directed
boa spedccompanyby membersofOongress.An Oct. 30, 2007, page-onestaory inTheWaliStreetJoumal
identied Rep. Murtha as the largest eamrarker in the House.
Meanwhile, a senior Democratic lawmaker is pushing back on the Obama administration's choice for the No. 2
Pentagon official because of potential conicts of interest and recent lobbying work for defense contractor
Raleon Co.
The new resistance comes a day after President Barack Obama unveiled tough lobbying rules to curtail sudr
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William J. Lynn, the nominee to become deputy secretary of defense, is a fonner Pentagon ofcial and Senate
staffer. He was a registered lobbyist from 2003 through June 2008 while working as a senior executive in
Raytheons Washington ofce.
Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which must approve
Mr. Lynn's appointment, said Thursday that he needed more information about how the administration planned
to deal with his Raytheon ties in light of the new lobbying rules.
The issue came up last week at Mr. Lynn's conrmation hearing. At the hearing, he said he would follow the
highest ethical standards. Mr. Lynn, 55 years old, couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
A White House ofcial said Thursday that the administration will provide Sen. Levin with whatever waiver
language he may need. Raytheon declined to comment.
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A big-game ranch in western Pennsylvania,
where longtime Rep. John Nlurtha D-Pa.!
threw a lavish $100_000 fundraiser last year,
is now at the center of a federal investigation.
Last week, federal agents raided a Kuchera
industries facility in Murtha's district along with
the homes ofthe electronic tim1's founders, Bill and Ronald Kuchera.
Authorities declined to release details of the investigation.
But unnamed sources told_ the Tribune Democrat in Johnstown, Pa., that
the federal investigation is focused on the use of corporate money for
"unapproved purposes. namely a 161-acre private ranch run by Bill
Kuchera.
Customers at the LBK Game Ranch in Summerhill, Pa., located about 80
miles east of Pittsburgh, pay a fee to hunt big game on the site; records
show the ranch rakes in about $150,000 per year. Kuchera bought the
property in May 2006 for roughly $800,000.
The ranch has been used in recent years to entertain clients and, last
year, Murtha used the site for a $100,000 "high-end" fundraiser,
according to the Tribune Democrat.
Federal Elections Commission records show that Kuchera Industries
employees and their families contributed more than $60,000 to Murtha
over the part three election cycles, and congressional lobbying disclosure
forms show $140,000 in payments since 2001 from Kuchera to Ervin
Technical Associates, whose chairman is Murtha ally and former Rep.
Joseph llll. NlcDade R-Pa.!.
In a 2006 Post article, Kuchera himself called Murtha supportive of
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district, which is made up of once-impoverished fomier steel towns. In
2007, he snagged $162 million in federal earmarks, the most of any
House member he was named "Porker of the Year" by the watchdog
group, Citizens Against Government Waste!. "As the top Democrat on
the House military spending subcommittee, he often delivers Democratic
votes to Republican leaders in a tacit exchange for earmarks for himself
and his allies," The New York Times noted.
Murtha's use of earmarks has come under attack in the past. In 1998, he
helped start Concurrent Technologies, a tax-exempt charity that has
grown into a contracting powerhouse despite its lackluster results. The
Post's Robert O'Harrow found. Between 2003 and 2007, Concurrent
received $226 million in earmarks from Murtha and other lawmakers.
Murtha and Kuchera met in 2001, when a Murtha aide approached the
defense contracting rm about a non-prot being started for disabled
workers. Kuchera joined the board ofthe non-prot, began employing
more disabled workers and hired Ervin Technical Associates as his
lobbying rm.
Murtha spokesman Matthew Mazonkey told UPI that the 19-term
congressman's ofce "has a working relationship with most companies in
our district. As tar as this case is concerned, we have not been contacted
by any of the agencies involved."
Kuchera industries received $8.2 million in eamiarks requested by
Murtha last year.
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WINDBER, Pa. - Federal
agents swarmed over the
Kuchera Defense Systems plant,
taking trucks full of documents,
disks full of computer records
and names of employees, then
vanished, leaving this town of
4,000 confused, wondering and
a bit fearful.
This may turn out to be
nothing and it may turn out to
be something, said J. Ted Hol-
lern, one of the businessmen
who count brothers William
and Ronald Kuchera as civic
assets men who staked every-
thing in 1985 to create a high-, .
tech business that has grown
into Windbers secondlargest
employer.
Be it something or nothing,
this Somerset County town wor-
ries about the damage.
The Jan. 22 raid shut down
the plant for a day. In a place
that saw unemployment top-
ping 20 percent in the 1980s in
the regions last big recession,
when the local steel and mining
industries collapsed, there was
a collective sigh of relief when
Kuchera reopened for business
the following morning.
Windber and Somerset
County certainly doesn't want
to lose - what is it, 300 jobs?
said Dan Miller, a local car
salesman.
Agents from the FBI, IRS and
the Defense Criminal Investiga-
tive Service, rushed the plant
on the edge of this former coal
town as Kuchera's 300 employ-
ees showed up for work on a
Thursday morning. Agents also
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million dollar federal defense
contracts, among the hundreds
of millions steered into I-this
region by its powerful congress-
man, John P."Murtha, a Demo-
crat from_ neighboring John-..
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major contractor that does work
on -weapon -guidance - systems
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more from firmssuch as Grum-
man and Johnstown-based Con-
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not been contacted by.,&nY,i1Wee-
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Defense Systems plant at Windber.
Defense contractor raided by federal agents
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The Kucheras, who both
reside just over the border in
adjoining Cambria County,
have helped spur local busi-
nesses large and small. Mimos
restaurant regularly sees a
ilow of Kuchera employees on
lunch break.
Likewise, Bob Rovder, a
deliveryman for a Chinese
restaurant in neighboring
Richland, said the plant is a
regular stop for him on Tues-
days.
"It houses a lot of jobs, he
said. "It was good for $40, $50
in food orders. I can't think of
anything bigger in Windber."
In fact, the local hospital,
once a tiny affair that verged
on extinction, has become a
center for research as well as
the Joyce Murtha Breast Care
Center, a federal earmark-
backed facility named for the
congressrnarfs wife. The med-
ical complex employs roughly
450 people, according to Mr.
Hollern.That's the fishy part of it all.T hey put those
signs up.Those signs say government test
facility."
Norman Long, who runs a farm equipment
While Kuchera Industries
and related Kuchera Defense
Systems were well-known to
the locals, the LBK Ranch,
named for Bill Kuchera and
his wife, Lena, in Cambria
County came as a surprise to
many.
"I didn't know about it until
I read about it in the paper,"
said Mr. Hollern. I had no
knowledge something like
that existed."
The ranch originally was
set up on 161 acres of wood-
land as a profit-making game
preserve where well-heeled
visitors could pay to hunt and
shoot trophy game.
lt is ringed by a high, greenrepair shop down the road from LBK
fence dotted with signs read-
ing No Trespassing U.S.
Govt. Test Facility."
Neighbors were at a loss to
explain those signs.
Thats the fishy part of it
all. They put those signs up.
Those signs say government
test facility," said Norman
Long, who runs a farm equip-
ment repair shop down the
road from LBK.
Mr. Long said he used to
hunt on the same tract when
it was owned by John Costello,
a local businessman who sold
it to William Kuchera several
years ago for about $800,000.
Both Norman Long and
his son, Ray, said the firstglimpse they had of the home
William Kuchera remodeled
and expanded on the site of the
ranch was an aerial shot taken
by a television news helicopter
the day of the raid.
The LBK Ranch was the
scene of a political fundraiser
for Mr. Murtha in August.
Dennis McGlynn, an attor-
ney for the Kucheras, said the
brothers are unaware of any
discrepancies in their books
and had no idea what the
authorities are looking for.
Kuchera Defense Systems
Inc. and Kuchera Industries
Inc. would like to assure its
employees, customers and the
community that they are fully
operating and are fulfilling
all of their contractual obliga-
tions." Mr. McGlynn said in a
statement released after the
raids. in addition, the compa-
nies will continue to cooperate
with the government.
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FBI Raided Lobbying Firm Connected To Murtha
Feds Narrowing In On Companies With Ties To Congressman
ABC News
By Emma Schwartz and Justin Rood
February 9, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Q1 raided the ofces of a defense lobbying rm with close ties to
Democratic Rep. John Murtha Penn.!, sources tell ABC News.
The 1 searched the Virginia headquarters of the PMA Group in November, according to the sources,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity. PMA was fotmded by former Murtha aide Paul Magliochetti
and specializes in winning earmarked taxpayer ftmds for its clients. Good government groups have long
criticized Murthas cozy relationship with a handful of lobbyists and defense rms, ties that see millions
of dollars in government spending go out from Murthas ofce, and hundreds of thousands in campaign
donations come in. Murtha has said his earmarking has helped revive his economically depressed
district. PMA is the second company with close ties to Murtha to be raided by federal agents recently.
In January, agents from the Fl], the IRS and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service searched the
ofce of Kuchera Industries and Kuchera Defense Systems, as well as the homes of the fu'ms' founders.
The companies reportedly have received over $100 million in earmarks, thanks to Murtha's efforts.
Investigators have not commented on their interest in the companies, and no ofcial has suggested
Murtha was involved in any suspected wrongdoing by the companies. While it is unclear whether
Murtha is a target of the investigations, the heightened scrutiny of some of his closest donors and allies
signals that the Feds may be inching closer to the 35-year-member of Congress, who chairs the powerful
Defense Appropriations subcormnittee. "The F_Bl is showing a lot of interest in" a lot of people around
Murtha, said Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense. "If I was in Mur1ha's camp, I would not
be sleeping at night."
A spokesperson for PMA Group, Patrick Dorton, conrmed the raid in a statement Monday aftemoon.
"Government representatives did come to the PMA ofces. They requested a number of different kinds
of information," Dorton said. "The rm is cooperating with their requests." Asked if Murtha had been
contacted by the LEI or if he believed he was the target of an investigation, spokesman Matthew
Mazonkey said "no and no," adding, "I'm not going to waste my time with sensationalized journalism."
The PMA Group And Murtha
The PMA Group has beneted mightily from its ties to Murtha. In 2008, it brought in $13.8 million in
revenue representing dozens of defense companies and contractors, many of which have donated heavily
to Murtha. The veteran Pennsylvania Democrat has helped the rm secure millions in federal earmark
dollars. Indeed, in 2008, PMA clients won $299 million in earmarks, according to gures compiled by
Taxpayers for Common Sense. While the nn represents some defense giants like Lockheed Martin and
General Dynamics, a large portion of their business comes from small defense rms headquartered in
and around Mu1tha's district. In addition to Magliochetti, at least one other former Murtha aide, Julie
Giardina, also works at PMA.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has called Murtha one of the
most corrupt members of Congress, for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from
companies and writing them millions of dollars in earmarks. Murtha has declined to comment on the
designation. Soon after the raid on PMA's ofces, the rm's other senior members began talking to
founder Magliochetti about an arrangement that would include him leaving the rm, according to the
National Journal. Asked with these discussions were related to the raid, Dorton declined to comment.
Murtha is no stranger to controversy. In the late 1970s, he was targeted in the "Abscam" scandal, a
three-year E1 sting in which agents posed as representatives of an Arab sheik and offered suitcases of
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cash offer, but suggested the "sheik" nd a way to invest the money in his home district.
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CROYLE TOWNSHIP, Pa. --
Inside the LBK Ranch, a private
game preserve on a scenic hilltop
here, guests mingle at a stone lodge
after hunting deer and wild boar.
Signs posted at intervals along the
fence wam: "No Trespassing: U,S
Govt. Testing Facility."
Defense rm owner Bill Kuchera
and his wife, Lena, the owners of
the l6l-acre property, live in an
upscale log home within the
pI¬S6I'VC and Q0 I0 CXWIISIVC Cffon-5 A booth lor the Kuchera companies is pan olthe Showcase or
to keep out Sn-angers There are no Commerce trade show in -lohnstown, Pa. Bill Kuchera is al the hr right.. . . . [By Gene J Pusliar - Associated Press!visible signs of govemment testing,
but behind the 10-foot fence and
electronic gate lies the answer to a politically sensitive
question now under federal scrutiny: whether Kucheras
companies padded their Pentagon billings and diverted
taxpayer money to their own pet projects.'roo|.aox
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ln January, federal agents raided the ranch, along with .
the homes of Bill Kuchera and his younger brother Ron
and the ofces of two Kuchera companies. Federal
authorities are investigating tips from company insiders
suggesting that taxpayers were billed improperly for
Kuchera family expenses and ranch rcnovations,
according to sources familiar with the probc. Tens of
millions of dollars in Defense Department contracts have owed to Kucheras companies
because of the local congressman, Democratic g John P. Murtha the chaimian of the
House Appropriations defense subcommittee, The Navy recently suspended the company
from future contracts while the investigation proceeds.Comments
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sidestepped questions about $50 million in earmarked funds and contracts he has helped
direct to Kuchera Defense Systems and Kuchera Industries Inc. since 200l. But newly
obtained documents and interviews show that the current federal investigation is only the
latest chapter in the troubled history of the Kuchera brothers business ventures,
The Kucheras have acomplicated family history that involves drug-running and a farnily
feud that le the brothers in control of the companies. Over time they became aluent and
respected defense contractors in their home town near Johnstown, Pa.
Before Bill Kuchera produced electronics and robotic equipment for the Pentagon, he helped
run thousands of pounds of marijuana and some cocaine from Miami to sell in Racine, Wis.,
according to criminal records and accounts ofothers involved in the drug operation. Bill
Kuchera pleaded guilty to a single and lesser felony distribution charge in I982 after
cooperating witnesses implicated other Kuchera family members in helping store drugs at the
family home, Ron Kuchera and the boys parents were never prosecuted.
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Bill and Ron Kucheras uncle, Michael Kuchera, the founder of the original Kuchera
Industries lnc., told The Washington Post that his nephews tricked him into selling the
business to a shell corporation they secretly controlled.
Dennis McGlynn, an attomey for the Kuchera brothers, said he thought Michael Kuehera
knew he was selling the business to his nephews, whom McGlynn said he represented in the
sale. I-Ie said the Kuchera companies are appealing the Navy's suspension and he has no
evidence ofimproper billing. He declined to comment on other questions.
"ln defense of Bill and Ron, these people have hired-top notch engineers, computer techs and
line people," McGlynn said. "They produce excellent products. I am certain that all of the
general contractors who use KDS will tell you that their work is unparalleled.
Murtha, through a spokesman, declined to comment.
Known as "Billy" and "Ronnie" to friends, the Kucheras grew up in Racine but tried several
times to make a living in their family's native Cambria County, Pa. In the mid-l970s, Bill
Kuchera ran a bar near Johnstown, and his uncle Mike ran an electronics supply store.
After the I977 Johnstown flood. both family enterprises were wiped out by the town's
economic downturn. The uncle tried to rebuild slowly. Bill and Ron Kuchera moved back to
Racine, where Bill sold reworks imported from the South.
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marijuana from Miami, according
to court and criminal records.
Business was lucrative until
Whorley and Bill Kuchera were
arrested in I981, Wisconsin
criminal records show. They were
sentenced to several years in federal
prison. Kuchera served I I months.
After his release, Bill Kuchera
struggled to run a small comer
grocery in Racine. In I985, he
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Kuchera said. "I-Ie was family, and I wanted to help. I Rum Pm, gm,"
made him my full partner; 50-50." The uncle put Bill in hm um y
charge ofninning the plant. Ron joined them.
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Comment: | Vl|wA|liiAlso fresh out of prison, Whorley provided names of
government contracting officials he leamed about from .
fellow prisoners. Whorley said he invested $50,000 in
KII for a share of the prots and steered the Kucherm to
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But Whorley continued selling drugs, eaming a I0-year prison sentence with his next federal
conviction. He later led a lawsuit claiming that Bill Kuchera cheated him out of his share of
the rm's prots. but it was unsuccessful.
For a long time. business hummed along. But new tensions arose within KII. Michael
Kuchera said he grew upset when customers warned him that Bill had paid them cash "gis"
to retain their business. In I993, Michael Kuchcra said, Bill persuaded his uncle to sell the
company to a local buyer Bill had found. Months later, Michael Kuchera said he discovered
that he actually had signed over his company to art entity controlled by his nephews. He said
he consulted a lawyer, who told him there was little he could do.
"""'""" By I994, the Kuchera brothers had moved their operations to Windber, Pa,
l l miles east of Johnstown. with hope of winning defense contracts that Murtha said he
wartted to bring to the district. They partnered with Hughes Aircraft as part of a Defense
Department mentor-protege program. Kuchera Defense Systems qualied as a small,
disadvantaged business, because it reported that at least 20 percent of its employees were
disabled, meeting the govemment's standard. Raytheon became Kuchera Defense Systems
mentor after it acquired Hughes, a partnership that Mut1ha's office said the lawmaker
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Bill Kuchera said in a 2000 interview.
Kuchera also hired a high-powered
lobbying rm, Ervin Technical
Associates, whose chaimian is longtime
Murtha friend and fonner congressman
Joseph M. McDade R-Pa!. Kuchera
employees and their spouses have
political action and campaign
committees.
The rst mentorship contract -- $5
million in 1994 - called for KDS and
three other companies to produce
missile and communication systems
components for Hughes. Work volume grew each year. ln 2002, Raytheon gave Kuchera a
S41 million, ve-year Navy contract to assemble surface search radar systems to spot ships,
part of a Murtha-supported earmark. ln 2006, Murtha announced that Northrop Grumman,
Raytheon, Coherent Systems and the Air Force would give Kuchera ve contracts worth $7
million injust the rst year. Much of the work was new to the company.
"These contracts involve new programs for Kuchera, which further diversies their work
load across various programs," Murtha said in a statement.
Last year, Murtha announced that Raytheons missile division would give the company a
$25.7 million contract to manufacture telemetry units for an air-to-air missile and $1 million
for additional engineering and design work. Today, the company's long-tenn military
contracts could be worth more than $100 million over the next decade. Defense investigators
have asked Raytheon for Kuchera invoices, according to sources. Raytheon spokesman Anne
Marie Squeo said in a statement that Raytheon is complying with all its requirements under
federal contracting regulations.
Last year, acting on tips from people with information about company operations,
investigators began scnitinizing Kuchera's billing and whether fe deral funds had been used
improperly, including for renovations and laptops. The investigators also are looking into
invoices submitted by corporations run by Kuchera family members and friends, one source
said.
in the raid of the ranch, federal investigators conscated nine guns, Bill Kui:heras ries and
shotguns. While the Defense Department had signed olf on the executive controlling tens of
millions of dollars in defense work, his felony conviction made it illegal for him to possess a
firearm.
On a recent visit, two scowling employees on an all-terrain vehicle zoomed out to the
property perimeter to monitor reporters who stood outside the ranch fence to get a look
inside."
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A 27-year-old drug conviction has
come back to haunt a local business-
man and U.S. Rep. John Murtha.
But William Kuchera says the histo-
ry should have no affect on Kuchera
Defense Systems work for the federal
government.
Court records show Kuchera was
convicted of marijuana distribution in
1982 in Wisconsin.
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zations have questioned whether the
government checked out Kuchera's
background, his attorney says it is not
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government work.
Twenty-seven years ago, William
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for dealing in marijuana, Johnstown
attorney Dennis M. McGlynn said in a
statement. The judge who sentenced
him obviously hoped Mr. Kuchera
would learn a lesson from this experi-
ence and'would thereafter become a
law-abiding and productive citizen.
Mr. Kuchera has exceeded any rea-
sonable expectations the judge could
have had."
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which would require a security clear-
ance based on Mr. Kucheras lack of
clearance," McGlynn said.
y Kucheras past surfaced, in part,
because of a 2005 lawsuit by a convict-
ed cocaine dealer who claimed he was
an early partner of Kuchera.
Peter Vi/horley claimed he is entitled
to a portion of Kucheras earnings
because he invested about $70,000 in
the companys startup in 1985.
As The Tribune-Democrat reportedin February. Whor-
leys claims were-
"denied in their
entirety" following
binding arbitration
hearings in federal
court.
McGlyrin's state-
ment goes on to
outline the success of KucheraS busi-
ness, noting Kuchera Industries recog-
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Murtha steered millions of dol-
lars in defense work to a cam-
paign donor and the Pentagon
went along with it, even though
two. convicted drug dealers had
been deeply involved with the
company.
Records led in U.S. District
Court in Pittsburgh starting in
2005 raise questions aboutwhether the government eve;
checked into the background of
William Kuchera, of Windber, a
constituent who has been d0ing
govemment work for 20 years.
The records point to the politi-
cal peril of Murtha, DIohnstovim,
and other members of Congress
directing federal funds to particu-
lar contractors, an oft-Criticized
process known as eannarking
that has directed hundreds of bil-
lions of dollars in the federal
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budget to favored contractors
and programs over the past two
decades.
The companies oumed by
William Kuchera and his broth-
er -Ronald - Kuchera Defense
Systems and Kuchera Industries
Inc. have received $53 mil-
lion in federal contracts in this
decade alone.
According to the court
records, William Kuchera was
convicted of marijuana distri-
bution in 1982 inwisconsin.
In addition, a man who de-
scribes himself as an early part-
ner in Kucheras business in the
1980s is a convicted cocaine
dealer who has served two
terms in prison, according to
the records.
The man, Peter Whorley, sued
the Kuchera companies and
I/Villiam Kuchera for a share of
the money the companies have
collected in federal contracts.
Whorley lost the case when it
went to arbitration.
On Friday, Kucheras lawyer
said that his client had servednine months in prison and
since that time has built two
highly successful and reputable
companies with enviable
records of quality, rst-rate
work.",, . .
A In April, the Navy suspended
Kuchera = _Defens_e~ Systems,
William Kuchera and his broth-
er for alleged fraud," including
multiple incidents" of incor-
rect charges, along with allega-
tions of defective pricing and
ethical violations. Kuchera is
appealing the suspension.
In 2007 and 2008, Murtha
sponsored $14.7 million in de-
fense earmarks for Kuchera De-
fense Systems.
Before 2007, Congress did not
disclose the identities of ear-
mark sponsors, so it is impossi-
ble to say how much in ear-
marked funds Murtha directed
to the Kuchera family business.
In one early link to Murtha,
Kuchera made a $1,000 cam-
paign contribution to the con-
gressman in March 1992.
Kuchera and his uncle started
doing business in the mid-
v
l1980s and Murtha became
chairman of the House"Appro-
priations defense subcommit-
teein1989. . ] -
According to the-< -court
records. , .. iI.1.. H1955. .- IWJ-.l.l»li.92IIli
Kuchera approaehe§1,l_1is:iuticl,e,,
Michael. Who. -was":iusIs1aHi»s~;up.Kuchera Industries ... . > - .
William Kuchera "conded to
me that he had just spent time
in prison and he waslooking for
a fresh start," Michael Kuchera
said in an afdavit led in fed-
eral court in 2005. I I
Afterl agreed to go into busi-
ness with my nephew, he intro-
duced Peter Whorley to me,"
Michael Kucheras afdavit
states. One day shortly after I
had met Mr. Whorley, Bill told
me that Peter had agreed to in-
vest in the business."
Under questioning in the la'w-
suit, Whorley said that he had
invested $50,000 in. the
Kucheras' new business. Before
that, Whorley said, he had been
in prison for drug trafficking.
Answering questions in the law-
suit, William Kuchera said that
gilariicle is relaipad 10;
shew/the -$50,000 'om*l/92ll1orley.~yvas- a
personal loan that ihelpedé-for
my living e1_tp.enses,~-it helped
with . marl<etin'g- -expenses, -- it
helped with sales expenses}; -;
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involved, in drug i:lealings,'__. at .~
In. iethe statement Friday,
Kucherafs .lawy_eri pointed ~-to
ndings. by the federal court-in
the; lawsuit rejecting Whorley's
claims in. their: entirety.
The court split the costs of the
case, ordering Whorley to pay
_one+third and the Kuchera de-
fendants to, pay two- thirds. .
- William-Kuchera has -built
two highly successfulrand -rep-
utable companies with enviable
records. of quality, first,-rate
work, said Kuchera attorneyDennis McGly'nn.-. _ i >
In doing so, he has also creat-
ed 360 new jobs in the John-
stown" area. He should be ap-
plauded for his accomplis~h'-
ments and not denigrated for a
crime he committed -almost
three decades ago." ,
lhal this case has gained public notoriety:
' lfay - has bean released
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' By Dennis B. Roddy
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette} . .
A former defense contractor
with ties to~U.S. Rep; John P.
Murtha entered a plea of guilty
in a Florida courtroom yester-day to = accepting $200,000 in "
kickbackstfrom a Pennsylvama
subcontractor" in. 8 C858 that
reachesfrom Pensacola beaches
to Some1set~County's-hills.
Richard lanieri, former CEO
_ . ....._-_ _
accepting kickbacks, anda lon-
ger list of aoousations in Florida
that he defrauded the Air Force
in a $6 million contract. P i . .
While prosecutors did "not
outline full details of the agree.-
ment, what they described. as
kickbacks matched two con?
"suiting agreements Mr. Ianieri
had with Kuchera Industries;
a defense contractor based ino g kc ac
of Coherent Systems Interna-
tional-, is now expectedto coop-
erate _in a wider case involving
a-former Force, contr_act
supervisor accused -of hiding
his financial ties to a Florida
engineering firm that did mil-
lions ofdollars in defense work.
He entered guilty pleas f0-1W0
separate criminal complaints:charges led in Pittsburgh for
SEE Mlllllll, PAGE B-2
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homesof Ronald; and William
Kuchera, brothers-f who own
. the companyi-The. raid was
. par-t3 off a' probe into" allega-' tions"of;overbil1ing and fraud
on -defense contracts, and the
Navyearlier this year sus-
-pended the Kucheras from
fur,-ther defense contracts: '
p . Among defense -outlays
being scrutinized by pros-
ecutorsl was an $8 millionr Post Gazerre
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House Appropriations defense
subcommittee, Mr. -Murtha
wields broad tpowers to allo-
cate billions of defense dol-
lars. .
MatthewiMazonkey, spokes-
man for Mr. Murtha, yesterday
said the congressman had no
control over the contractors.
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A PittsburghPost-Gazette
Federal prosecutors. tiled
corruption charges yesterday
against a onetime" defense con-
fT3§Ct0T'Wh .t'h21S. ties to both U.S.-
Repi John Murtha and a subur-
ban'J0hnst0vm defense contrac-
tor currently under criminal
investigation» - '
- Richard S;_ Ianieri, former
president land" CEO -oi Coherent
Systems International Corp; was
accused of accepting $200,000 in
kickbacks.-He is charged through
a criminal ~int6rn1atio'n and is
expected to plead ' V
r No date has yet been set. _
According to the court ling
entered yesterday. Mr. Ianieri is
accused of i takingrthe kickbacks
from a date unknown through-
Janu'ary,2006 while anofcer for
Coherent, which was a prime con-
tractor for-the United States. The
information charges that Mr.-Ian-
ieri solicited and accepted kick-
backs fromj'Kf a subcontractorofthe United S_tates'. = j I
The government alleges that
Mr. Ianieri took -checksas kick-
backs - one for $102,832.29 and
another for $9_7,01'53.56 which
. .. were provided for the p1up0se
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rewarding favorable treat-
ment in connection with 'Ks
subcontract relating to a gov-
ernment prime contract."
The information does not
identify
In April 2006, Mr. Murtha.
D,-Johnstown, touted a rela-
tionship between Coherent
and Kuchera Defense Sys-
tems. Coherent, of Doyle-
stown, Bucks County, work-
ing with Kuchera Defense
Systems in Windber, Som-
erset County, had obtained
more than $30 million in 14
prime contracts for high-tech
tools for the military. , '
A news release from the
congressman announced
that the two were working
virtually as one comparw."
Coherent, employees
designed, developed and
tested the products, while
Kuchera did the manufactur-
1116
in.August 2007, Coherent
becameasubsidiary of Argon
ST for approximately $20 mil-
lion, including debt asswnp-
tion. Mr. Ianieri worked for
Argon, based in Fairfax, Va.,
as the vice president for busi-
ness development but left the
company late last summer. -
When contacted at his
home in Doylestown last
night, Mr. ianieri referred
questions to his attorney.
who did not return a call
seeking comment.
Yesterday's criminal
information marked the rst
charges arising out of inves-
tigations into .companies
receiving defense earmarks
contracts targeted to spe-
cic projects and rms, usu-
ally at the behest of powerful
members of Congress.
The charge comes six
months after federal agents
raided the offices of Kuchera
Defense Systems and
Kuchera industries, a subur-
ban Jolmstown technology
rm.
At the time of the raid, fed-
eral agents also searched the
homes of the company's two
owners, Ronald and William.
Kuchera.
Both firms have relied
in the past on defense con-
tracts directed through the
office of Mr. Murtha, who
did not immediately respond
to requests for comment lastmsht "
The congressman has not
been officially named as a
target of the ongoing investi-
aation.At the same time, ne has
been roundly criticized by
some Republican House col-
leagues, as well as various
reform groups, for his prac-
tice of directing billions in
defense contracts to compa-
nies that set up shop in his
district.
Since 2003, Mr. lanieri and
colleagues at Coherent have
directed a totalof $72,950 in
political donations to a num-
ber of congressmen, both
Democrats and Republicans,
with ties to the defense indus-
try.
Twenty percent of that
amount $14,000 -- was
given either to Mr. Murthas
re-election campaigns or to
his political action commit-
tee.
When Coherent entered
into the defense market in
2006, the company hired KSA
Consulting, a Washington-
basedrm that onceemployed
Mr. Murthas brother, Kit,
and which is headed by a
trio of partners that includes
Carmen Scialabba, a onetime
Murtha aide. V
Neither KSA, Kit Murtha
nor Mr. Scialabba has been
implicated in any wrongdo-
ing in the ongoing probe.
As a joint team of FBI and
IRS agents probes Kuchera,
the federal Justice Depart-
ment is continuing a sepa-
rate investigation into the
defunct lobbying rm PMA.
Created by Paul Mag1ioc-
chetti, a Pittsburgh native
who worked as a staff mem-
ber on the House Appropria-
tions defense subcommittee,
the rm became the foremost
lobbyist for defense dollars.
Federal agents searched
PMA's offices in suburban
Washington in November,
carting away records.
Since that time, one mem-
ber. of the Appropriations
Committee. U.S. Rep. Pete
Visclosky, D-ind, has been
subpoenaed in connection
with that investigation. Mr.
Viscloskys former chief of
staff was among a number
of former congressional
employees who joined PMA
in its heyday.l
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Ex-colonels sentenced in military contract case
Associated Press | Oct. 14, 2009, 8:00 AM | 2 | 5
By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
PENSACOLA, Fla. AP! A federal judge sentenced two former Air Force colonels to prison on Tuesday for
destroying documents, lying to a grand jury and other crimes related to a wider fraud scheme by contractors and
defense lobbyists with ties to a powerful Pennsylvania congressman.
The men, both engineers graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy, are among those accused by federal
prosecutors who are looking into alleged wrongdoing by contractors with ties to Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., chairman
of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. '
Murtha has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing.
U.S. District Judge Lacey Collier sentenced Richard Schaller to 18 months in prison and ve years probation.
Schaller was convicted of helping Mark O'Hair, a supervisor at the research lab at Eglin Air Force Base, steer
contracts to Schallers defense contracting company.
O'Hair previously pleaded guilty to federal charges of false statements and conict of interest. Collier sentenced
O'Hair to six months in prison and three years probation the strongest sentence he could give under the
sentencing guidelines.
Also involved in the Eglin case is Richard lanieri, the former chief executive for a defense contractor.
lanieri set up a company in Murtha's congressional district and worked closely with another defense contractor in
Murtha's district, William Kuchera. Kuchera's company has received tens of millions of dollars in congressional
appropriations that were directed to the rm by Murtha.
lanieri hired a lobbying rm that at the time employed Murtha's brother. After hiring the rm, lanieri's company,
Coherent Systems International Corp., received a congressional appropriation of more than $8 million.
Around that time, Murtha announced in an April 2006 news release that Coherent and Kuchera Defense Systems
were working "virtually as one company" on 14 contracts worth $30 million to develop high-tech military gear.
lanieri pleaded guilty July 20 to defrauding the Air Force and has been cooperating with federal prosecutors. His
sentencing had been set for September, but was delayed indefinitely while he cooperates with the Justice
Department in its ongoing probe.
On July 29, lanieri testied at Schallers trial in federal court in Pensacola, Fla., that lanieri had taken $200,000 in
kickbacks from Kuchera's company, after providing the defense contractor with $650,000 from the congressional
appropriation of over $8 million. / _5~
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Ianieri testied that OHair approved numerous invoices dividing the appropriation of over $8 million among lanieri's
company and four smaller companies including Schaller engineering.
On Tuesday, Collier denied a request by Schaller to leave prison to attend his daughter's November wedding.
Collier said he felt the retired colonel had shown no remorse for manipulating the earmark system.
U.S. Attorney Stephen Pressier said Schaller's conduct was a betrayal of his military service.
"lt is inconsistent with the nobility that comes from being a retired ofcers of the U.S. Air Force. You have somebody
that in his mind thinks that they are above the law, he said.
But Albert Oram, Schaller's attorney, said his client and OHair were trying to help airmen and soldiers on the
ground by working to obtain earmark funding for high-tech research that would save lives in lraq and Afghanistan.
Oram said it was something Air Force officials encouraged.
Collier disagreed.
The evil of the earmark process is that l don't even know how they come up with the money and the contractor that
has the relationship with the congressman then gets the money," he said.
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Defense contractor suspended over kickbacks
Thursday, January 07,2010
By Joe Mandak, The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - A defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha has been suspended again from bidding on government
contracts, this time for paying more than $200,000 in kickbacks to another contractor turned govemment witness.
Kuchera Defense Systems Inc., of Windber, was suspended Dec. 22 for allegedly paying off Richard Ianieri. Ianieri is -
awaiting sentencing Feb. 23 in U.S. District Court in Pensacola, Fla., after pleading guilty in July to fraud stemming from a
research contract at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Kuchera's attorney, Dennis McGlynn, said Kuchera was ghting the suspension and that it is based on information the Navy
had in August - when the Navy previously took Kuchera off the Excluded Parties List System, a black book of contractors
suspended from govemment work.
Kuchera was rst suspended in April for overcharging the Navy and other ethical violations, but McGlynn said the company
resolved those problems to the Navy's satisfaction.
Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Victor Chen conmied that, but said the new suspension was based on separate circumstances:
kickbacks Kuchera paid to Coherent Systems International, a company co-founded by Ianieri. - .
Kuchera Defense Systems and Coherent have been awarded more than $50 million apiece in defense work in the last decade,
according to www.fedspending.org, a Web site on federal contracting.
in July, Ianieri testied about getting the kickbacks to steer $650,000 worth of work to Kuchera from an $8.2 million
congressional earmark. Ianieri testied "there was political and earmark pressure" to shift the money - though he didn't say
who applied such pressure.
ianieri's rm had gotten the earmark after hiring a lobbying rm that employed Murthas brother. The Johnstown Democrat's
office refuses to say whether the congressman sponsored the earmark.
The criminal charges against Ianieri were rst led in Pittsburgh, where the U.S. Attorney's Ofce has acknowledged an
investigation stemming from a January raid of Kucheras ofces. _
Spokeswoman Margaret Philbin said today that federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh had no comment on that investigation or the
latest suspension.
A spokesman for Murtha also declined to comment.
"This is an issue between Kuchera Defense and the U.S. Navy. It does not involve our ofce," Murtha spokesman Matthew
Mazonkey said. _
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Congressional Ethics Ofce recommends no sanctions against Murtha
Friday, December 18, 2009
By Daniel Malloy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
WASHINGTON -- The Ofce of Congressional Ethics has closed its
corruption investigation into U.S. Rep. John Murtha and recommended no
sanctions against the Johnstown Democrat.
Mr. Murtha received a letter this month that the Ethics Ofce would not
recommend further investigation by the House Ethics Committee, according to
a congressional source with knowledge of the investigation. The investigation
had focused on a relationship betweeen Mr. Murtha and the lobbying rm
PMA Group.
PMA was founded by Pittsburgh native Paul Magliocchetti, a former
appropriations committee staffer and friend of Mr. Murtha. The rm closed this
spring after federal agents searched its ofces and Mr. Magliocchetti's home to
look for evidence that he used friends and family to steer donations to members
of Congress, in violation of campaign nance laws.
Sources have told the Post-Gazette that federal investigators have asked Mr.
Magliocchetti about Mr. Murtha.
Congressional probes focused on potential ties between federal earmarks and
campaign donations to members of the defense appropriations subcommittee,
chaired by Mr. Murtha.
Created by Congress in 2008, The Ofce of Congressional Ethics is a group
comprised of private citizens that can look into alleged wrongdoing by
members of Congress and make recommendations to the Ethics Committee. In
this case, it recommended that there be no further investigat
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