A federal grand jury indicted a former high-ranking NASA official Friday for using a government position for his own profit. After playing an important role in George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, Courtney Stadd served as NASA’s chief of staff and White House liaison until 2003. The indictment charges Stadd, after being named as “special government employee” for NASA in 2005, with diverting $9.6 million earmarked for earth science to one of his clients, Mississippi State University’s GeoResources Institute. If convicted, Stadd could face 15 years in prison. (Washington Post)
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