This reporter has played you. He has you so riled up about the thought of someone doing no work while you pay with your tax dollars that you haven't really read the article. It says that Mr. Riechers did no work for CRI directly, which is exactly as it should be since his contract was to work for the air force. Read past the bias...

One more lesson for any investor to stay the hell away from the USA.
It is a "fixed system".
How proud the republicans must be that we have been transformed into a corrupt bananna republic under their good old boy bush!

The whole world is watching and laughing. The sad joke is on all of us.

Nice work if you can get it.

First I am hearing of this. Is this not news?

I only we could impose that Statement of Work on Cheney!

I want that job. Just the salary alone for one month would save my house from being repossessed and pay off all my bills, with enough left over to go to a movie, or something. I'd even do some work, if they asked me to.

AT LEAST HE IS DOING NO HARM!
SO IN THIS YES IS NO AND A LOSS OF A WAR IS CONSIDERED A WIN ETC, SINCE HE IS NOT DOING HARM (NEGATIVE WORK) THEN ONE COULD SAY HE IS DOING SOMTHING BECAUSE 0>-(n)

'YOUV'E DONE A FINE JOB CHARLIE', GIVE HIM A FREEDOM MEDAL

Just further proof that the Bushies are royalist and take care of their own "aristocrats".

Obviously there was a market for his type of skills.
Milton Friedman

A job that requires you to do no work? That's about 90% of the people employed by the Federal Government. The 10% that do work is the US Military.

"I really didn't do anything for CRI," said Riechers, now principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition. "I got a paycheck from them."
"The Air Force defended the arrangement, saying Riechers was well qualified to perform the work."

I'm qualified for this work too! Where do I sign up?

ALL OF THESE 'SHILLS', CHARLATANS and LACKEYS ARE USED TO DRAIN OUR AMERICAN TREASURY BY THIS FASCIST GOVERNMENT OF BUSH!

It's not hard to see how BUSH funnels $$$ to 'non-profit' groups to take care of his LACKEYS AND SHILLS AND WHORES!
Isn't that what whores do...'laydown on the job' and take your money!!!! just like good ole Charles D. Riechers....

My first thought is 'where can I get a job like that?' My second is 'How can a non-profit pay somebody $13K who isn't even doing any work?'

Will this be mentioned or killed by the corporate media?

Considerin what evil such creeps do when they work, it's just as well he wasn't required to do any.