Recently, Sunlight Foundation published the story “The Pentagon’s Big Contractors Lobby Big and Get in Big Trouble”. In this short post about the Top 10 Defense Contractors, they included some interesting Lobbying and Contractor Misconduct data. I was curious to compare the # of misconduct cases that were defense related with the total 2009-2010 lobbying figures. I thought perhaps the higher percentage of “defense contract misconduct” might in some way correlate with higher lobbying dollars. To some extent, I suppose it does, but not quite to the degree I thought it might. (full size graphic)

Disclaimer: While I used to work for Sunlight Foundation, and have done contract work for them in the past, this was created for fun and is in no way an official Sunlight project/graphic.

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