PMA Group

Former Head Of PMA Indicted

Rachel Slajda | August 5, 2010, 2:14PM

The late Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)

Paul Magliocchetti, the founder of the now-defunct lobbying group PMA, has been indicted on eight federal charges for making illegal campaign contributions and false statements.

PMA, which closed down last year, was an influential defense lobbying group at the center of a scandal that threatened to take down at least seven Democratic lawmakers, including the late Rep. John Murtha, chair of the defense appropriations subcommittee. The House ethics committee last year cleared all the members of wrongdoing, and today's indictment does not implicate any lawmakers.

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