Title: Darleen Druyun - Wikipedia
Headings: Darleen Druyun
Darleen Druyun
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Education
Appointments and career
McDonnell Douglas investigation
U.S. Air Force tanker contract controversy
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Content: In September 2003, responding to critics who argued that the lease was vastly more expensive than an outright purchase, the United States Department of Defense announced a revised lease. In November 2003, the Air Force decided it would lease 20 KC-767 aircraft and purchase 80 tankers. 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, Druyun was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for corruption, fined $5,000, given three years of supervised release, and 150 hours of community service. She began her prison term on January 5, 2005 as inmate number 47614-083. She was released from prison on September 30, 2005.