“It’s pretty fucked up,” says Charles Davidson, executive director of the Kleptocracy Initiative, a new graft-monitoring project based at the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. “It should be a scandal, not just a controversy.”
Russia’s state-controlled NPO Energomash has contracts worth over $2 billion dollars to supply two major U.S. aerospace companies, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Orbital ATK, with rocket engines.