The Daily Double (Tuesday)

Report: Plan to Digitize
Immigration Records Was Flawed

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau’s $190 million project to automate 55 million paper-based immigration files “has suffered from inadequate planning,” according to a Government Accountability Office report.

Mollohan’s Trip to Spain Funded
By ‘Earmarked’ Government Contractors

Democratic Congressman Alan Mollohan’s trip to Spain was paid for by a group of government contractors who received millions of dollars in earmarks, reports Roll Call (through Raw Story).

The trip was paid for by the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, a nonprofit organization Mollohan created back in 1990. The group has received more than $30 million in federal funds through the congressman’s efforts.

Mollohan’s ethical problems also involve his joint purchase of a farm with the CEO of a company that received a $2.1 million government contract through an earmark inserted by the congressman.

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