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Pentagon Pete Busted Handing $400M to Fraud Firm

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Randy Sartin / IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense has handed a contract extension worth up to $400 million to a weapons firm that has admitted to fraud against the government. Raytheon was awarded the massive deal just a month after officials determined it wouldn’t be suspended for its past actions, the Daily Beast’s sister Substack, PunchUp , reported. The Missile Defense Agency has handed the subsidiary of major arms manufacturer RTX a two-year no-compete extension worth up to $394 million to maintain government radars, with $112.3 million already…

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