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2 top Los Alamos officials leave lab amid fraud allegations
SJ Mercury News ^ | 3/11/03 | AP - Washington

Posted on 03/11/2003 7:48:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:30:38 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The two top security officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory have agreed to leave the lab after allegations of fraud and retaliation against a whistle-blower on their watch.

Security division director Stanley Busboom and his deputy, Gene Tucker, refused reassignment to lower-paying jobs at the lab but agreed to take a severance package and leave, said Bruce Darling, senior vice president at the University of California, which runs the lab.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: 200303; energydepartment; fraud; genetucker; laboratories; losalamos; officials; security; stanleybusboom

1 posted on 03/11/2003 7:48:27 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Wait a minute, Norm. How can this be?

Didn't Notra blow the whistle back in the days of the previous administration? And wasn't he crucified by that same administration?

Didn't the now gov of New Mexico intimate that there were no problems at Los Alamos? Hmmmm.

/sarcasm

2 posted on 03/11/2003 8:21:12 PM PST by Diver Dave
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