{"id":208,"date":"2003-11-24T15:17:43","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T20:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/rewarding_bad_behavior\/"},"modified":"2003-11-24T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T20:17:43","slug":"rewarding_bad_behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/rewarding_bad_behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Rewarding Bad Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens Against Government Waste has awarded the Boeing Corporation its first annual &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagw.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=news_NewsRelease_11242003\">Corporate Turkey of the Year Award<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Boeing won more than $22 billion in government contracts despite an amazing display of corporate misconduct, ethical improprieties and irresponsibility,&#8221; Schatz continued.  &#8220;After improperly obtaining proprietary information from numerous competitors and even the Pentagon, Boeing continued to win sweetheart deals from the government and rip off taxpayers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Business as usual in Washington&#8211;taking <i>responsibility<\/i> out of corporate responsibility.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Fittingly, Boeing <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=568&#038;ncid=749&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20031124\/bs_nm\/arms_boeing_dc\">fired its CFO today.<\/a>  Why?  For unethical conduct in the hiring one of the Air Force&#8217;s senior procurement officers.<br \/>\nThe revolving door between government and industry continues to churn, with taxpayer money greasing the skids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/rewarding_bad_behavior\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Rewarding Bad Behavior\"><p>Citizens Against Government Waste has awarded the Boeing Corporation its first annual &#8220;Corporate Turkey of the Year Award&#8220;: &#8220;Boeing won more than $22 billion in government contracts despite an amazing display of corporate misconduct, ethical improprieties and irresponsibility,&#8221; Schatz continued. &#8220;After improperly obtaining proprietary information from numerous competitors and even the Pentagon, Boeing continued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}