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Alan Grayson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080400978_pf.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/04/AR2006080401456.html http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-16685316_ITM http://www.taf.org/backissues.htm http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119258983531961678.html http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=14841 Same article as above one http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/17/cbsnews_investigates/main3378787.shtml http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119301147985666484.html http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZW20071021000099 Same article as above one http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/16076312/the_great_iraq_swindle http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710 http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/11/halliburton200711 http://www.taf.org/ubl.pdf http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070103071.html http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-lawsuit1908jul19,0,978678.story

IDT link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDT_Corp. Alliance for Aging BOD http://www.agingresearch.org/section/aboutus/board_of_directors Harvard  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School

Prosecutor Alleges Money Laundering Wapo Germany Probes Fairfax Contractor in Iraq Wapo Political circus, er, season heats up OrlSen Taxpayers Against Fraud Names Alan Grayson Lawyer of the Year for 2006  TAF Sept 2, 2006 Food Companies Face U.S. Probe Over Iraq Deals  WSJ Food Fraud In The War Zone? Justice Department May Be Investigating Suppliers Of Seafood, Meat And Pastries In Iraq CBS U.S. Rebuffed Food-Fraud Case WSJ The Great Iraq Swindle: How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury Rolling Stone Billions Over Baghdad VF The People vs. the Profiteers    VF Defense contractor, worker settle  Orl Sent via TAF A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud  Wapo Contractor working in Iraq, east Orange sued OrlSen

DOB 3/13/58, New York City, NY. Higher Education: Harvard College A.B. magna cum laude 1978 (in three years). Harvard's Kennedy School of Government M.P.P. 1983 (also completed all course work and passed general exams for Ph.D. in Government). Harvard Law School J.D. cum laude 1983. Chronological full-time employment. Economist, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1978-1979. Law Clerk, Colorado Supreme Court, 1983-1984. Law Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1984-1985. Associate, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, 1985-1990. President, IDT Corp., 1990-1991. Director, Grayson & Kubli, PC, 1991 to present. Also: Founder and Officer, Alliance for Aging Research, 1986 to present. Director, Florida Senior Programs. Board Member, Fair Districts Florida. Wife Lolita. Children Skye (1995), Star (1998), Sage (2000), Stone and Storm (2005).

Star (8), Sage (6) and two-year-old twins, Storm and Stone.

Alan grew up in "the projects" in the Bronx. He heard the squeal of the wheels of the elevated trains, every five minutes, all day and all night. At the age of 12, he took the subway to school, by himself. At the age of 11, a bully threw him under a moving bus. He lived.

Six years later, he took the standard test for 12th graders in New York. Almost 50,000 students in the Bronx took that the same test. Alan received the highest score.

Alan was accepted to Harvard College. He cleaned toilets there, and worked as a night watchman. He graduated in three years, with high honors.

Then he went to graduate school at Harvard. In only four years, he received a law degree (with honors), he earned a master's degree in Government, and he finished the course work and passed the general examinations for a Ph.D.

After graduate school, Alan worked as a judge's assistant at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He worked with Judges Ginsburg, Bork, Scalia, and Starr. He then joined Judge Ginsburg's husband's law firm, where he represented government contractors.

In 1990, Alan left the practice of law, and started a new business – IDT Corp. Alan was the first President of IDT. Today, IDT is a Fortune 500 public company, with $2 billion a year in sales. Alan took his profit from IDT, and invested it in many other small companies. Today he owns between one and ten percent of a dozen different public companies.

Twenty years ago, Alan helped to found the Alliance for Aging Research, to help promote health and a good life for older people. The motto of the Alliance is "Living to 100 – and Loving It!" Alan has served as an officer of the Alliance for two decades. He also supported the work of Arnold Palmer Hospital for many years.

In the '90s, Alan returned to the practice of law. For many years, he represented honest government contractors. Over the years since the beginning of the Bush Administration, however, he has seen the bad drive out the good. Fraud and corruption among government contractors grows and grows. The Bush Administration did nothing to recover the stolen money, protect the taxpayers, punish the thieves, or even safeguard the U.S. troops using and wearing defective equipment and supplies. And so Alan found his calling – like an Avenging Angel for the taxpayers and soldiers, he has sued the war profiteers in the name of whistleblowers, and forced them to disgorge their ill-gotten gains.