{"id":898,"date":"2005-09-20T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2005-09-20T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T14:17:47","slug":"katrina-contracting-corruption-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Katrina contracting corruption watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pogoblog.typepad.com\/\">The Project on Government Oversight<\/a> has been tracking the story.<br \/>\nThe latest juicy tidbit: the administration&#8217;s top procurement official, David Safavian, had been working on developing contracting policies for the Katrina relief effort. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=53613\">arrested<\/a> for obstructing an investigation by the GSA&#8217;s Office of Inspector General. Safavian allegedly helped lobbyist Jack Abramoff aquire GSA-controlled property the Washington, D.C., then lied about it to the investigators.<br \/>\nLaura Rozen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warandpiece.com\/blogdirs\/002643.html\">collecting reports<\/a> on the Safavian investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project on Government Oversight has been tracking the story. The latest juicy tidbit: the administration&#8217;s top procurement official, David Safavian, had been working on developing contracting policies for the Katrina relief effort. He was arrested for obstructing an investigation by the GSA&#8217;s Office of Inspector General. Safavian allegedly helped lobbyist Jack Abramoff aquire GSA-controlled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Katrina contracting corruption watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}