Air Force Official Guilty of Conflict of Interest

Thanks to an IEC member for alerting us to a recent article about an Air Force employee's conflict of interest problems:

On Monday in U.S. District Court, O'Hair admitted that he failed to disclose that he was a director of a company that benefited financially from his work as a civilian program officer for the Air Force.

He pleaded guilty to making a false statement and engaging in a conflict of interest.

O'Hair faces up to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine for failing to list on financial disclosure forms that he was a director of Schaller Engineering Inc. The company received more than $200,000 in contracts while O'Hair was charged with awarding contracts for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle.