Ex-NASA official pleads guilty over contracts
Associated Press
A former high-ranking NASA official has pleaded guilty in Mississippi to designing contracts in a way that netted him more than $270,000 in illegal profits.
Liam P. Sarsfield, a former chief deputy engineer in Washington D.C., controlled a $1.5 million fund and designed contracts that wouldn’t have to be put out for bid. He steered the contracts where he wanted them to go, including to Mississippi State University and a company in Ohio, prosecutors said Monday.
Authorities say some of the money ended up in the hands of another top NASA official who faces nine felony charges in U.S. District Court in south Mississippi, home to NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
Courtney A. Stadd, NASA’s chief of staff and White House liaison from 2001 to 2003, is charged with steering contracts to his consulting firm’s clients, including the university, which scored a $600,000 contract to study remote sensing technology. Prosecutors say the men conspired.
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