Courtney Stadd Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charges

Courtney Stadd Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charges

Courtney Stadd, a well known member of the space policy community who was Chief of Staff to NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe and later returned briefly to work with Mike Griffin when he became Administrator pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges on Wednesday. Stadd is charged with conspiring with former NASA deputy chief engineer Liam Sarsfield to steer a $600,000 NASA contract to Mississippi State University (MSU), which then hired his consulting company to perform some of the work according to the Associated Press (AP), which also states that “Stadd was convicted in 2009 and sentenced to probation for a different case for steering a $10 million contract to MSU.” Sarsfield pleaded guilty to one count in November, according to the AP.

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