More crime and corruption ties have been discovered for
Vivek Kundra and the Obama White House. Thanks to Zach
Jones of the ZachJonesIsHome blog for the heads up.

From the Real Barack Obama blog:

“Update 03/17/09 15:30 pm ET: Thanks to RBO reader jd for forwarding the link for this info:

Owen Thomas at The Gawker reports that Vivek Kundra “pleaded guilty to a theft charge in 1997.”

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  Yusuf Acar, the D.C. computer security official accused of masterminding a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scam, told his co-conspirators that corruption was widespread in the city’s computer office, The Examiner has learned. Acar and former D.C. employee Sushil Bansal are accused of faking invoices and timesheets from contractors in order to skim money from the city. The pair was arrested last week.Several alleged co-conspirators were identified by initials in court papers but have not been charged with wrongdoing.”
  Yusuf Acar, the D.C. computer security official accused of masterminding a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scam, told his co-conspirators that corruption was widespread in the city’s computer office, The Examiner has learned. Acar and former D.C. employee Sushil Bansal are accused of faking invoices and timesheets from contractors in order to skim money from the city. The pair was arrested last week.

  Several alleged co-conspirators were identified by initials in court papers but have not been charged with wrongdoing.”

“Reportedly, “corruption was widespread in [the] office”, Bill Myers and Scott McCabe wrote in D.C.’s The Examiner:”

““What concerns us and the White House Counsel’s office is that Kundra and Bansal seem to have a very tight relationship that was not discussed during the vetting process,” says the White House source. The White House has determined that Kundra and Bansal also did business prior to Kundra’s taking the D.C. job. When Kundra worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), it was as a consultant for a project at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Bansal’s firm provided support to SAIC’s contract work at HHS.

“We’re still sorting things out,” says the White House source. “But there appears to be a lot more to be cleared up than we originally thought.””

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