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Staff

Neil Gordon

Senior Researcher

Areas of Expertise

Federal contractor misconduct, contractor accountability, government privatization

Neil Gordon joined POGO in 2007. His primary responsibilities include editing POGO’s Paper Trail e-newsletter and managing our groundbreaking Federal Contractor Misconduct Database. He also works with the media, answers public queries, submits comments to the federal agencies on proposed regulations, and writes about contracting issues and other public policy matters. Prior to joining POGO, Gordon was a researcher and writer at the Center for Public Integrity, working on the Center’s investigations of prosecutors, U.S. contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, state legislators and lobbyists, and international corruption. From 1995 to 2000, Gordon practiced law in Maryland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Delaware and a law degree from the University of Baltimore. He has written for Nieman Watchdog, Washington Business Journal, Daily Beast, and IRE Journal and has been quoted in Bloomberg Government, Federal Times, Roll Call, and FoxNews.com.

POGO highlights:

  • Instrumental in the development of POGO’s revamped Federal Contractor Misconduct Database.

Latest Work

  • New Top 100 Contractors and a Special Anniversary

    analysis | October 12, 2022

  • The Great Pandemic Swindle: Feds Botched Review of Billions in Suspect PPP Loans

    investigation | October 6, 2022

  • COVID-19 Test Giveaway a Potential Conflict for USPS’s DeJoy

    analysis | March 31, 2022

  • Booz Allen Gets Its Hand Caught in the Revolving Door

    analysis | January 7, 2022

  • COVID and Contractor Misconduct

    analysis | September 21, 2021

  • The U.S. Just Created a Public Beneficial Ownership Registry for a Subset of Companies

    analysis | March 4, 2021

  • Corrupted: We’re Changing Our Format

    analysis | January 14, 2021

  • Corrupted: Vaccine for Me and Not for Thee

    analysis | December 17, 2020

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    November 29, 2019

  • Number of suspended, debarred contractors falls for fourth year in a row

    November 07, 2019

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