[marron]

During the Clinton years, and maybe still, there was a scam used by the Chinese to obtain high-tech military hardware, such as missile guidance systems. It required someone in the DOD to certify the hardware as "surplus".

It would then be sold off to a company specializing in military surplus, who would then transship the stuff to China.

The Chinese would work through US surplus dealers, sometimes buying the company, but always maintaining US citizens as the owners of record, in order to preserve access to DOD surplus.

So you have a lawyer on the inside, who could arrange certification, and Brown, a military surplus parts dealer.

I'm reaching here, but Clinton's gone, and our relations with the Chinese are evolving. Maybe people are bailing and covering their tracks?

How's that for a Grand Unified Theory?

[Betty Jo]

He interviewed at the Stennis Space Center!

[Boxsford]

How's that for a Grand Unified Theory?

LOL, well it would make for the best movie script!
What about Brown living so far beneath his means? He drives a beat up truck and doesn't draw attention to himself with extras in his life~ yet gives his father a Mercedes.