Morning Smoke: Pentagon Duped by a Pair of Wyoming Shell Companies

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Defense

How two shell companies duped the Pentagon
Brian Grow and Kelly Carr, Reuters

Boeing found to have overcharged Army for helicopter parts
Charles S. Clark, Government Executive

F-35 Bacon Bits
Mark Thompson, Battleland

Whistleblowers

The Unquiet Life of Franz Gayl
James Verini, Washington Monthly

Public Health

WSJ: Surgeons Who Tested Medtronic's Infuse Failed To Report Problems
John Carreyrou and Tom McGinty, The Wall Street Journal

A Congressional Bailout for a Pharma Firm?
Siddhartha Mahanta, Mother Jones

Contract Oversight

Contractor performance reviews: One size fits all?
Matthew Weigelt, Federal Computer Week

Nuclear Power Plant Safety

AP IMPACT: NRC and industry rewrite nuke history
Jeff Donn, The Associated Press

Financial Sector Oversight

Treasury Assails OCC on Draft Rule
Victoria McGrane, The Wall Street Journal

Bharara Has Power To Clean Up Wall Street “Dirty Business”
Francine McKenna, Forbes

$8.5 Billion Deal Near in Suit on Bank Mortgage Debt
Nelson D. Schwartz and Eric Dash, The New York Times

Ethics

Pols Brace For Probes After House Ethics Panel Staffs Up
Susan Crabtree, TPMDC

State Department

State to SIGIR: “Lay off”
Joel Smith, The Will and the Wallet