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Crain's New York Business, April, 2003

Schumer aids firm on Iraqi contract in an effort to ensure that New York companies get their fare share of the reconstruction work coming out of postwar Iraq, Sen. Charles Schumer is lobbying on behalf of Globecomm Systems Inc. of Hauppauge, L.I., for a subcontract to provide the country's first wireless system.

Sen. Schumer's office will write a letter on Globecomm's behalf to Bechtel, the San Francisco-based company that won a $680 million master contract last week from USAID to supervise the rebuilding of key parts of Iraq's infrastructure. ``We want to help anyone in New York who wants a piece of these contracts,'' the senator's spokesman says. Wrongful death cost put at $500 million city officials say a bill in Albany permitting lawsuits for...

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