Title: Darleen Druyun | Military Wiki | Fandom
Headings: Darleen Druyun
Darleen Druyun
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Operation Ill Wind
United States Air Force tanker contract controversy
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Content: In November 2003, the Air Force decided it would lease 20 KC-767 aircraft and purchase 80 tankers. Buying one KC-767 outright costs $150 million. The contract called for 100 aircraft being purchased or leased at an aggregate price of $26b, or $260m per plane. Therefore, the contract, if it had been executed, would have forced the DOD to pay Boeing much more money for each plane than it would have had to if the aircraft were purchased individually. After leaving the Air Force in 2003 Druyun took a job with Boeing at an annual salary of $250,000. She also received a $50,000 signing bonus. In December 2003, the Pentagon announced the project was to be frozen while an investigation of allegations of corruption by Druyun was begun. Druyun pleaded guilty to inflating the price of the contract to favor her future employer and to passing information on the competing Airbus A330 MRTT bid (from EADS ). CBS News called it "the biggest Pentagon scandal in 20 years" and said that she pleaded guilty to a felony. In October 2004, she was sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption, fined $5,000, given three years of supervised release and 150 hours of community service.