CREW AND VOTEVETS.ORG DEMAND INVESTIGATION INTO $74 MILLION DOD CONTRACT TO COMPANY PRODUCING SUBSTANDARD HELMETS

28 Feb 2008 // Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), joined VoteVets.org and two whistle blowers to discuss the need for an investigation by the Armed Services Committees – led by Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) and Reps. Ike Skelton (D-MO) and Duncan Hunter (R-CA) – into a $74 million Department of Defense contract awarded to a North Dakota manufacturing company, Sioux Manufacturing Company, which has been outfitting our nation's troops with substandard Kevlar helmets.