Looking for a Job? Knowing Curt Can’t HurtFamily members and close “family friends” of Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), a powerful member of the Armed Services Committee, share an uncanny ability to get hired by large companies fishing for U.S. defense contracts, the new investigative blog at Harper’s magazine reports. His daughters Kim and Karen, and “family friend” Cecelia Grimes, have all landed jobs or contracts with Boeing, two divisions of Italian industrial firm Finmeccanica, as well as other firms. Company reps assured Harper’s that their hires’ connection to the congressman was sheer coincidence.
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