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Combs, however, maintains his innocence and in a TimesDemocrat story a couple of weeks ago, characterized his company, his fellow colleagues and his own plight as those of “victims,” wrongfully accused by a press that has “bad information.”
But now/ from his perspective at least, relief could be on the horizon.
Earlier this month, a federal judge threw out the $10 million judgment against Custer Battles - and in so doing, opened the doors to hope for Combs, Windmill’s director and chief operating officer, Peter Majeranowski, and other business colleagues facing the threat of current whistle blower pursuits.
The reason for the overturning was more technicality than any finding of innocence. The judge, according to an Aug. 19 Washington Post story, found that while facts did seem to show Custer Battles had illegally overpriced bills to the government, the fraud had occurred against the Coalition Provisional Authority - the interim international entity that was in charge of forging Iraq’s new government - rather than against the United
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