1.   Those connections and the insights they provided were difficult to recreate, retired agency officials said.

2.   Defense officials allegedly helped the company in exchange for securing jobs for retiring agency officials.

3.   The Defense Agency officials are suspected of arranging the inflated billing in exchange for jobs for retiring agency officials.

4.   They often set up numerous subsidiaries, filling top posts with retiring government officials.

5.   Two Defense Agency officials also have been arrested on suspicion of allowing the inflated billings in exchange for cushy jobs at NEC-linked companies for retiring agency officials.