Rumsfeld expands Boeing probe
13 April 2012
DONALD Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, has widened an inquiry into a a multibillion-dollar Air Force plan to lease 100 Boeing 767s as refueling tankers.
The Pentagon's initial probe focused only on whether former Air Force acquisitions official Darleen Druyun improperly gave Boeing, her future employer, access to a rival's data in the bidding for the contract.
The probe was expanded at Rumsfeld's request in November when Boeing fired Druyun and its chief financial officer, Michael Sears, after learning Sears had approached Druyun about working for Boeing while she was still overseeing Air Force deals with Boeing.
Now Rumsfeld wants to see if Druyun's job search affected other contracts.
