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In 1992, a proposal was submitted to the Federal Transit
Administration by John G. Milliken, secretary of transportation
for Virginia’s Department of Transportation, in concert with
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the State University of
Blacksburg, Virginia, and Sky Shuttle Corp.,4 which is listed as
the technology parent along with the Sky Shuttle Group of firms
and their technologies (the Virginia proposal). Petitioner is
referred to as the director of Sky Shuttle Corp., and petitioner
testified that four or five people, including himself, organized
the Virginia proposal. According to the Virginia proposal, Sky
Shuttle Corp. lists two staff members (neither of whom is
petitioner or a named member of his group), and the Sky Shuttle
Group consists of 10 other companies or corporations that would
contribute their technologies or expertise. It appears from the
Virginia proposal that Sky Shuttle Corp. was a participant in
this endeavor.
During the years at issue, petitioner and the group also had
contacts with the staff of the office of Congressman Bud Shuster
(who was a minority member of the Department of Transportation
committee in the House of Representatives), with Aluminum Co. of
America (a metal manufacturer), and with other contractors.
Petitioner incurred expenses with regard to meetings and
4 We find that Sky Shuttle Corp. and Sky Shuttle, Inc., are
one and the same.
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