Armstrong Williams "plug-for-pay" contract report [US DOE] News
Armstrong Williams "plug-for-pay" contract report [US DOE]

Review of Formation Issues Regarding the Department of Education's Fiscal Year 2003 Contract with Ketchum, Inc. for Media Relations Services, April 15, 2005 [concluding that although the US Department of Education's so-called "plug-for-pay" contract with conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to promote the No Child Left Behind Act was not illegal or unethical as such, it was a "poor decision"]. Read the full text of the report [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.