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FILE - In this June 10, 2011 file photo, Lynn Tilton is seen in Gorham, N.H. The Justice Department is building a corruption case against a flamboyant Wall Street financier who won millions of dollars in military contracts and then hired the Army officer who steered the money her way. Interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press portray entrepreneur Lynn Tilton and Col. Bert Vergez as being in unusually close contact for more than a year before Vergez retired from the Army in late 2012. Among the allegations is that Vergez provided Tilton with details about upcoming contracts to give her company, MD Helicopters of Mesa, Ariz., an advantage over the competition (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Feds probe colorful financier’s business dealings

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 2 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - This May 13, 2013 file photo shows a Mi-17 helicopter used by the Afghan Air Force at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Yuri Borisov’s performance on a lucrative U.S. military contract was dismal. Cost overruns. Blown deadlines. Forged paperwork. Yet that didn’t keep the Russian entrepreneur from winning more business with the Department of Defense, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Borisov, who specializes in refurbishing Russian Mi-17 helicopters, had an ally in Bert Vergez, an Army colonel who ran an obscure DOD acquisition office in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall, File)

Odd couple at center of Russian helicopter inquiry

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press