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Hearing on Twenty-Something Contractors Postponed

For those of you waiting to hear from the senior executives behind AEY, Inc., you’ll have to wait a little longer. The House oversight committee, which had set a hearing for 22 year-old AEY President Efraim Diveroli, his 25 year-old VP (and masseur) David Packouz, and the company’s general manager, also 25, to testify, has indefinitely postponed the hearing.

Packouz’s lawyer had informed the committee that his client would be pleading the Fifth unless he received immunity to testify — something which seems unlikely. So that likely has something to do with the postponement. Diveroli and his boyz are under federal investigation for allegedly lying about the source of the ammunition he provided to the Afghan army.

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