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5-26-2009 11:07 PM

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Over the past eight years, according to the White House budget office, the company has faced open competition in only 11 percent of its federal contracts, which make up most of its business.
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Over the past eight years, according to the White House budget office, the company has faced open competition in only 11 percent of its federal contracts, which make up most of its business.
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Over the past five years, a local defense contractor with close ties to <SPAN id="apture_prvw1" class="aptureLink"><SPAN class="aptureLinkIcon"> </SPAN><A href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m001120" class="aptureLink snap_noshots">Rep. John P. Murtha</A></SPAN>, a Democrat who has represented southwestern Pennsylvania for three decades, has selected several small police departments in the region to receive $10 million in Justice Department grants.
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The company, Mountaintop Technologies, was selected by the lawmaker in a series of earmarks to hand out and monitor the grants. As it distributed the money to the departments, the firm would explain each time that it was arriving through the largess of Murtha -- often just before fall elections.
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