John Murtha’s Nephew Received $4 Million in Defense Contracts

  I guess having an uncle on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee has its advantages. At least it does for John Murtha’s nephew, Robert, who received over $4 million in no-bid contracts. And that was last year alone.

  Robert Murtha is denying that his relationship to John Murtha is the reason why he was awarded $4 million in contracts from the government last year. I suppose that means he is also denying that being Robert Murtha Sr.’s son has anything to do with it either. Senior is a lobbyist for defense funds and has been awarded millions in defense contracts for his clients.

  Said Junior on the reason he was awarded  no-bid contracts:

We were uniquely qualified because we had already been doing that work

  That sounds an awful lot like the excuse Halliburton made about receiving no-bid contracts in Iraq. The same excuse that people like John Murtha did not want to hear.

  The other excuse being thrown around is that the army was too busy to send out the contract for bidding. In short, we are supposed to believe that the army was too busy; that Murtech is the only company that can do this type warehousing; that Junior’s father had nothing to do with the contracts even though he is a major lobbyist; and that it is just a coincidence that Robert Murtha Jr.’s uncle is the man in charge of giving defense contracts.

  John Murtha is in this up to his eyeballs, the longer this investigation goes on and the more details we learn the harder it is to believe that John Murtha should be allowed to retain his chairmanship. He has been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in defense contract earmarks for his district over the years and we are supposed to believe that this was just a coincidence.