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Article: A $191 Million Question; How a relationship between an Army official and a private contractor led to allegations of collusion and impropriety
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- The Washington Post
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- August 7, 2009
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He called her Princess. She called him Bubba. They got together
whenever they could, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, traveling to
business conferences, taking long walks. They exchanged e-mails
night and day.
"You been sleepin??" George Raymond wrote to Catherine Campbell
in September 2005.
"I slept some," she wrote back. "Just got out of the shower."
"Oh boy," he wrote.
Theirs was a cozy relationship, and they worked in a world where
such cozy relationships are officially frowned upon. Raymond, now
61, was the director of a technology program for the U.S. Army, and
Campbell, now 47, was a favored contractor. As they grew close, the
lines between their public duties and private lives ...