LITTON RAIDED BY FBI : DEFENSE FILES SEIZED IN PROBE OF FINANCES.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Daily News Staff Writer Federal agents raided Litton Industries Named after inventor Charles Litton Sr., Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001. Inc.'s Woodland Hills headquarters Wednesday and seized hundreds of defense contract files. Several dozen investigators from the FBI and the Pentagon's Defense Criminal Investigative Service The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) is the criminal investigative arm of the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Its stated mission is to protect America's warfighters by conducting investigations in support of crucial National served search warrants about 8 a.m. at Litton's Guidance and Control Systems Division. They spent the day scouring scouring characterized by scour. scouring disease a colloquial name for secondary nutritional copper deficiency. records and then loaded dozens of boxes of documents into a medium-size truck at the close of business. Agents on the scene declined to discuss their work and referred inquiries to their regional office. ``We're conducting a criminal investigation. It's really sensitive and I can't go into any details right now,'' said Al White, assistant special agent in charge of the DCIS DCIS ductal carcinoma in situ. DCIS Ductal carcinoma in situ, see there office in Orange County. Litton officials said they were mystified mys·ti·fy tr.v. mys·ti·fied, mys·ti·fy·ing, mys·ti·fies 1. To confuse or puzzle mentally. See Synonyms at puzzle. 2. To make obscure or mysterious. about what the agents were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . ``It was a surprise to us that they showed up this morning. They knocked on the door, we opened the door and they came in,'' said Litton spokesman Bob Knapp. ``My understanding is that they are looking for information of an administrative nature about contracts, the pricing of contracts and the costing of contracts.'' He said agents were probing several contracts. ``We're cooperating with them totally,'' Knapp said. One source said agents were looking for evidence of false billings in connection with defense contracts. The Litton unit has about $3 billion worth of defense contracts, said Gay Maund maund n. A unit of weight varying in different countries of Asia from 11.2 to 37.4 kilograms (24.8 to 82.6 pounds) avoirdupois, the latter being the official maund in India. , a spokeswoman at the Defense Control Management District office in El Segundo. The division, which employs about 750 people, develops and manufacturers navigation and guidance systems for military aircraft, land vehicles, missiles and ships. Its manufacturing facility is in Salt Lake City. Litton Industries also manufactures industrial automation systems and marine engineering devices. |
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