Badolato, E

Edward V. Badolato, a retired U.S. Marine Colonel with a distinguished career in government and private enterprise. Colonel Badolato was a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College with several tours of duty in the Middle East, beginning in 1967 shortly after the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. His tours took him to nearly every country in the Middle East. Following his retirement, heserved as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy in both the Reagan and Bush administrations (1984-89). As such, he was the principal architect of the government’s readiness and response to terrorist threats to our energy infrastructure.

In 1980, he wrote a white paper, “Learning to Think like an Arab Muslim: a Short Guide to Understanding the Arab Mentality”. I am going to provide a brief introduction to it. At only 14 pages, it is not a long document, but it succinctly explains why Americans and others in the West are encountering such difficulty understanding why Arab Muslims appear, by our standards, to be completely insane.

Why, for example, would people who believe they have the one, true religion, not hesitate to blow up mosques and other holy places? Why would they attack weddings and funerals? Why is beheading so popular among terrorists? Why would a few cartoons set off rioting and killing? And what does all this mean to us in terms of the threat it represents?

Badolato begins by describing Arabs as “a proud and sensitive people whose culture is mainly derived from three key factors: family, language, and religion.” The Arab cultural system has existed for centuries and predates the introduction of Islam around 610 AD and its rapid spread after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD. “An Arab’s commonly accepted view of the world (is) basically threatening and harsh.”

Arab Muslims and presumably others because Islam has more than a billion adherents, divide the world between themselves and what they call Dar al Harb, literally, “the world of war.” So, you are either a Muslim or you are an infidel and, by definition, a threat to Islam until you convert or are killed.

This may seem harsh, but true believers in Islam hold all other religions in contempt. The view of Judaism is psychopathic. Christians do not fare much better. The contempt for Hindus and Buddhists, religions deemed not to have “a book”, completes the utter certitude of Muslims that they alone are truly religious.

You might feel that way, too, if you were compelled to pray five times a day, at dawn, midday, late afternoon, sunset, and nightfall. There are five prescribed prayers and all are in Arabic, a language Arabs will tell you is superior to all others. Verbal grandiosity is greatly applauded by Arabs. When facts are trumped by “ideas”, however, you have entered Alice’s bizarre Wonderland.

Badolato writes that, “An Arab’s concept of the world has occasionally been described as a series of seven concentric circles with the individual Arab at the center. Thus, he has his family, an extended family or tribe, an immediate geographic region, and then his country. It is within the family that the psychology of the Muslim Arab is formed and observers have noted that, “the fluctuation between a loving mother and stern disciplinarian father can add to the complexity of growing up and often fosters schizoid personality traits.” To put it another way, Arabs can go from hot to cold and back again so fast that it is bewildering. Arabs live in a black and white world with no shadings of grey.

Why do Arabs seem to be so violent? Conflict can be found in a family culture of competitiveness that is instilled at an early age. An old Arab saying aptly describes this. “I against my brother, my brother and I against our cousins, my brother, my cousins and I against the world.” Add to this the way Arab history has been dominated “by warfare, domestic upheaval, and struggles against invasions from outside the Arab world” and you begin to grasp a mindset that will resist anything that is not Arab.

As Badolato describes it, it is an “almost visceral mistrust of any outside group or more specifically any Western state whose true ultimate intentions cannot readily be determined.” For Arabs, their wars such as the conflict between Iraq and Iran in the 1980s really began at the battle of Qaddisiya over a thousand years ago!

The Islamic wars following the death of Mohammad led to the Sunni and Shiite divisions within Islam. It is a history of tension and conflict that literally dates back to the earliest years of Islam. Westerners might dismiss this by saying, “Get over it!” but the Arab mentality is totally rooted in the past.

And why not? Not one single word of the 114 surahs (chapters) of the Quran has been changed in fourteen centuries and they describe in detail the conduct of every hour of every day of an Arab Muslim’s life. As Badolato describes it, “It is as if one single document contained our Constitution, our legal code, national education policy, business practices, inter-personal etiquette, and the Bible.” Welcome to the seventh century AD!

EDWARD V. BADOLATO, COLONEL USMC (Ret.) On Thursday, October 30, 2008 of Falls Church, Virginia. Beloved husband of Lois M. Badolato; father of Shawn Beyer (Robert) and Blake Badolato ( Jennifer); grandfather of Patrick, Matthew, Gina, Julia and Leo.

Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at the Fort Myer Chapel on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:45 a.m. Interment Arlington National Cemetery with Full Military Honors.

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andrew Badolato: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Andrew Badolato faces federal indictments for money laundering and conspiracy to commit wire fraud along with President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Steve Bannon, Timothy Shea and Brian Kolfage, all of whom are accused of siphoning a total of around $1 million in funds that were donated to Kolfage’s We Build the Wall crowdfunding venture which took money from Americans to be used to build a border wall between the U.S and Mexico.

While donors were promised that Kolfage would “not take a penny in salary or compensation” and “100% of the funds raised will be used in the execution of our mission and purpose,” according to the indictment, prosecutors say that the four men secretly plotted and skimmed money from the donors to pay Kolfage, who started the campaign, and to put into their own pockets.

The indictment says the men worked together to launder the money through a shell non-profit called Non-Profit-1, each getting hundreds of thousands of dollars that they used for personal gains.

Kolfage is accused of using money from donors to pay for “home renovations, payments toward a boat, a luxury SUV, a golf cart, jewelry, cosmetic surgery, personal tax payments, and credit card debt,” according to court records.

Prosecutors say the other men, “each received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donor funds from We Build the Wall, which they each used to pay for a variety of personal expenses, including, among other things, travel, hotels, consumer goods, and personal credit card debts.”

Here is what you need to know about Andrew Badolato:

1. Badolato Lives in Florida & Is a Venture Capitalist & Entrepreneur who has Filed for Bankruptcy At Least Twice

On Badolato’s private Twitter page, his bio says, “Venture Capital, entrepreneur, classical liberal, single father, raised 3 sons, recent 2x grandfather, can skin a buck and run a trotline,” a reference to the Hank Williams Jr. Song, “A Country Boy Can Survive”.

Badolato’s personal webpage and LinkedIn account list several companies he has started over the years going back to 2001. His company Bye Bye Now ended up claiming bankruptcy in 2001 due to the dot.com crash, according to Badolato’s website. He also reported that in 2006 he wrote that he filed again for bankruptcy, this time personal, which he blames on the retroactive new homestead laws passed by congress.

In 2018 Badolato co-founded Golden Goose Technologies LLC, (GGT) which he describes as “formed in 2018, specializes in the licensing, incubation and commercialization of technologies developed by defense contractors, DARPA labs and other leading research institutions and centers.”

He is also the Director of a company called White Knights and Vultures, “A boutique venture capital, private equity, financial advisory and professional services firm that incubates, develops, finances and assists niche-specific business opportunities,” according to his LinkedIn page.

White Knights and Vultures is named in the indictment as one of 11 company accounts that are ordered to forfeit funds having to do with the federal case.

2. Bannon and Badolato Exchanged Texts in Which They Discussed the Importance of Message That All the Proceeds Would go to Building a Border Wall Was Vital to Keeping Donors Money

As part of the evidence in the indictment, prosecutors say that Bannon and Badolato texted about how it was important to keep up the narrative that the Build the Wall effort was entirely run by volunteers and all of the money from donors would be used for that purpose.

Badolato texted if they did that the effort would become “the most talked-about media narrative ever” since it “removes al self-interest taint” and “gives Brian Kolfage sainthood,” according to the indictment.

Prosecutors say it was Badolato who insisted on sending an email to all of the donors stating that no one was getting paid and that was a “material item” to donors.

Kolfage also went on social media and assured donors no one was getting any money from donors, and according to the indictment some donors wrote to him saying they didn’t have a lot of money and did not trust online fundraising campaigns but they trusted Kolfage. He allegedly wrote them back promising he was not being compensated.

3. Badolato Has Mob Ties & Those Ties — As Well as He & Bannon’s Relationship — Were All In Place When Bannon Was Working to Get Donald Trump Elected to the Presidency

[Former advisor to the US president and US publicist Steve Bannon poses during a photo session in Paris on May 27, 2019.]

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune has done extensive research and reporting on Badolato and found that in August 2016 Bannon used Badalto’s home address to register to vote in Florida while he was living in D.C working on the Trump campaign.

In years before that Badolato was known to have had ties with the mob.

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported in 2018:

But mob ties aren’t the only sordid affairs Badolato is accused of.

4. 3 Women in 4 Years Accused Badolato of Sexual Assault

In 2006, 2009 and 2010 three different women reported to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office that Badolato raped them. He was never prosecuted because according to the sheriff’s office none of the women pursued filing criminal charges after initially making the claims.

Badolato, who says he’s a single dad who raised three sons on his social media pages, was accused by a nanny and two women he met online and flew to his home.

The nanny told police in 2006 that Badolato wouldn’t pay her until she gave him oral sex and said that was part of her job. She hesitantly agreed to do it, crying, she told deputies, and then he took it further and fully raped her.

In another case, Badolato saw a woman on a modeling website and said he wanted to photograph her and flew her into Tampa. Once back at his house, she says he forced himself on her multiple times.

The third woman has a similar story — she agreed to fly to Florida after the two met on a website. She says once back at his house he wasted no time demanding sex. She told investigators “I didn’t expect to have sex with him the first night.”

In the police reports, it says they went to Badolato about the allegations and he said it was all consensual, but that in the future he would, “be more careful picking his dates.”

5. Badolato Calls Himself a Hobbyist Conservative-Oriented “Classical Liberal”

While liberalism isn’t generally a word associated with Breitbart or Bannon, Badolato boasts that he’s been an infrequent contributor on Breitbart News, formerly owned by Bannon, and his articles picked up on the Drudge report, saying on his website, “Some mainstream political media analysts suggested the data articles were responsible for one of the largest national political narrative shifts of the election year.”

At least one of his data-based articles had to do with the Trump campaign.

According to the Mises Institute, “Classical liberalism is the term used to designate the ideology advocating private property, an unhampered market economy, the rule of law, constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion and of the press, and international peace based on free trade.”

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Near the end of a lengthy indictment detailing fraud allegations against Stephen Bannon, former Donald Trump campaign CEO and chief strategist and his associates, federal prosecutors reveal that they intend to seize the assets of a murky nonprofit organization Bannon launched in 2017 to promote “economic nationalism.”

The group is Citizens of the American Republic, a California-based nonprofit that serves as a platform for Bannon’s films and podcasts that promote Trump’s ideology. Throughout the 24-page indictment, the group appears to be referenced as “Non-Profit-1” in a scheme in which Bannon and his partners were allegedly looting a crowdsourced charity, We Build the Wall, for personal gain. The indictment never outright states that “Non-Profit-1” is Citizens of the American Republic, but it describes it as an “organization founded by [Bannon] with the stated purpose of promoting economic nationalism and American sovereignty,” which closely matches the nonprofit’s own stated aims.

The indictment alleges that “Non-Profit-1” received over $1 million through the scheme and funneled part of it to Brian Kolfage, the military veteran who raised money to build a privately funded wall to help Trump block off the southern border.

The document also sheds light on an oblique financial trail linking a loose-knit group of private businesses and nonprofit organizations politically aligned with Trump. In addition to Bannon’s nonprofit and We Build the Wall, federal investigators are moving to seize assets from four other entities, including two affiliated with Kolfage — a defunct right-wing news site called Freedom Daily that operated out of Florida and America First Medical, a medical supplies company Kolfage formed in Wyoming to sell masks in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. rules allowing so-called dark money groups like Bannon’s to hide the identity of their donors helps them maintain a shroud of secrecy, which is only partially pierced by a criminal indictment and the subpoena power of investigators.

“The only reason any of this is coming to light is it turns out that the money that was being collected wasn’t necessarily used for the promised purposes and instead it was used to enrich someone,” said Daniel Weiner, deputy director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s Election Reform Program. “The secrecy, at least for the people who helped design the system, is a feature not a bug.”

Kolfage told Reuters in 2019 that he had earned seven figures through creating and selling conservative websites like Freedom Daily.

Bannon played a critical role in helping Kolfage set up We Build the Wall Inc. after GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform he had been using, accumulated millions in donations from supporters, the indictment charges. GoFundMe demanded that Kolfage set up a legitimate nonprofit to accept donations. The effort ultimately raised over $25 million after promising — falsely, the indictment alleges — that the donations would not benefit Kolfage.

That “removes all self-interest taint” and gives “Brian Kolfage saint hood,” stated Andrew Badolato, a longtime Bannon associate who was also indicted,in a text to Bannon that prosecutors quoted. Badolato and his lawyer did not respond to emails requesting comment.

Bannon promoted the wall effort on his podcast “War Room: Pandemic”, when he had Kolfage on to discuss the situation at the border.

“You’ve been the leader of this, assisting President Trump in building this wall in these tough areas,” Bannon said to Kolfage.

[Read More

He Built a Privately Funded Border Wall. It’s Already at Risk of Falling Down if Not Fixed.

Trump supporters funded a private border wall on the banks of the Rio Grande, helping the builder secure $1.7 billion in federal contracts. Now the “Lamborghini” of border walls is in danger of falling into the river if nothing is done, experts say.

Bannon was arrested on Thursday by federal agents in Connecticut while on board a superyacht owned by wealthy Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. Guo also allowed Bannon to use his private jet to fly around promoting Republican congressional candidates in 2018, an arrangement that experts said could run afoul of campaign finance laws banning foreign donations.

Bannon and his lawyers did not return emails from ProPublica requesting comment. He told reporters after posting bond that the indictment was a “fiasco” to “stop people who want to build the wall.” On Friday, Kolfage wrote on his Facebook page that the indictment is a “witch hunt” and the work of a “weaponized judicial system” trying to take down Trump insiders.

Kolfage did not return an email from ProPublica for comment after the indictment. On Thursday, Trump continued to distance himself from We Build the Wall, telling reporters that he thought “it was done for showboating reasons” and that he didn’t know that Bannon was linked to the group. A spokesperson for Trump told Fox News that the president did not know the other people involved with the project.

Citizens of the American Republic raised around $4.5 million in 2018, according to its tax filings, most of which came through six- and seven-figure donations from just a handful of donors, whose names are not disclosed. A single donor gave $2 million. The group’s purpose is to “educate the American people” about issues including “economic nationalism,” “social policy and respect for traditional American values” and “America First foreign policy,” among other issues, according to the filing.

The group’s first filings, for the 2017 tax year, show no donations to the nonprofit. The 2018 tax filings show transactions that occurred prior to the timeline covered in the federal indictment.

As a “social welfare” nonprofit organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, the organization is not required to disclose its donors. The contact number listed on the group’s tax forms belongs to itsaccountant, Robert Watkins, who did not return a message requesting comment.

The organization made just $15,000 in grants in 2018. The filings show $250,000 in loans and payments to Bannon’s film company and $40,000 in payments to Bannon’s nephew, Sean.

Read More

Steve Bannon’s Use of Private Jet Linked to Chinese Businessman Could Violate Campaign Finance Law

The former Trump adviser used a plane apparently owned by businessman Guo Wengui. Americans are barred from receiving services for campaigns donated by foreign nationals.

Bannon is the group’s president and is described as working 80 hours a week for the group with no salary. His sister Mary E. Meredith, who is vice president, earned $20,000 for her 40 hours per week of work. Meredith did not respond to messages requesting comment. Other top officials are Dan Fleuette, a longtime Bannon associate, and lawyerCleta Mitchell. Fleuette did not respond to a LinkedIn message requesting an interview.

Mitchell has served on the boards of several right-leaning nonprofits, including the National Rifle Association and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, led by Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore. She declined an interview request.

The filings show more than $1.1 million flowing out of the nonprofit to various large vendors, although the nature of their work is unclear. Nearly $850,000 went toward travel, and more than $1.4 million to “conferences, conventions and meetings.” The filing says that Citizens of the American Republic funded two Bannon documentaries, about the 2016 campaign and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and paid for promoting them.

In 2018, Citizens of the American Republic paid nearly $144,000 to a company called Platinum Advertising Corporation for “websites/social media.” The address given for Platinum Advertising in the filing, 30 N. Gould St., Suite R, in Sheridan, Wyoming, is the same address as the medical supplies company Kolfage formed, America First Medical.

Wyoming has particularly lax business transparency laws, and Platinum Advertising appears to be a shell corporation. Its secretary is listed in state filings as Gerald Pitts, the founder and president of Wyoming Corporate Services, which specializes in incorporating businesses to shield assets from taxation or disclosure. A 2011 investigation by Reuters found that Pitts was listed as “a director, president or principal for at least 41 companies” registered at a single address in Wyoming.

Pitts did not respond to an email requesting comment.

A second company paid by Citizens of the American Republic, Fortress FM, received more than $191,000 in 2018 for “security, logistics, and training.” The company address listed on the 2018 filing is a post office box in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that is also used by a firm of accountants, Kercher-Jarrett LLC.

T. Gary Kercher and Wayne Jarrett, who are listed on Kercher-Jarrett LLC’s business filings, did not respond to messages requesting comment.

One of the charges Bannon is facing is that of conspiring to commit money laundering. The 2018 National Money Laundering Risk Assessment, prepared by the departments of Treasury, Justice and Homeland Security and U.S. regulatory agencies, noted the risks presented by a lax approach to shell corporations.

“The ease with which companies can be incorporated under state law, and how little information is generally required about the company’s owners or activities, raises concerns about a lack of transparency,” the report said.

Kolfage worked with Fisher Industries, a North Dakota-based construction firm, to help build the two border fences. We Build the Wall funded the construction of one stretch of border fence in New Mexico, near El Paso, Texas, and contributed 5% of funds for Fisher to build a $42 million fence along the banks of the Rio Grande south of Mission, Texas.

A ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished. Engineers warned that could result in segments of the fence toppling into the river if not fixed. Fisher Industries’ CEO has dismissed the concerns and said that he will fix any problems.

Despite criticism of the wall-building project from the president, his administration has awarded Tommy Fisher, CEO of Fisher Industries, about $2 billion worth of federal contracts to build segments of the border wall for the government — at least two of them while a federal audit over concerns of “inappropriate influence” by the president is pending.

Fisher’s attorney told ProPublica and the Tribune that his client has not received any other money beyond the construction funding provided and has no other business with We Build the Wall.

Perla Trevizo and Kirsten Berg contributed reporting.

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Integrated Infrastructure Analytics , Inc.

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Homeland Security

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Contingency Management Services Inc

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"For a few bucks and with a few people who know what they're doing, [a state] can really raise havoc," saysEdward Badolato, an international security expert with theShaw Group.These countries have created the biggest threats.

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"Trust me," declared Edward Badolato, executive vice president of the Shaw Group, one of the nation's largest engineering firms, "there's going to be plenty for everybody down there."

Badolato was in a position to know.

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Thanks to the firm's political connections, Badolatoboasted, Shaw's lobbyists "really delivered the bacon to us."

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CLIFTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2005--ECSI (Electronic Control Security, Inc. (OTCBB: EKCS - News) a leading provider of security solutions to governments, nuclear power facilities and corporations worldwide, has appointed Mr. Edward V. Badolato and Mr. Juda S. Engelmayer to its Advisory Board.

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Edward V. Badolato, Vice President for Homeland Security, The Shaw Group (NYSE: SGR - News), brings a stellar record in nuclear security and anti-terrorism operations to the ECSI Advisory Board.He has been involved in numerous high profile programs dealing with security, protection of energy infrastructure, and counterterrorism operations.He was the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy where he was the principal director of security, energy contingency planning and international energy security activities.He was the principal architect of the US Government's present day nuclear weapons security programs, as well as all of its conventional energy emergency preparedness activities.Heled security vulnerability assessment programs at each of DOE's 58 nuclear sites, and coordinated multi-billion dollar upgrades in nuclear facility security countermeasures.

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Arthur Barchenko, Chairman and CEO of ECSI stated, "Edward and Juda bring valuable experience to our Advisory Board.

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Ed Badolato, Executive Vice President, Homeland Security, The Shaw Group --- and Past Chairman of ICSC-- will be a featured speaker at Defense Today's third annual conference Contracting for Homeland Security: Requirements and Acquisition Strategies, which will be held on March 16 - 17 at the Washington Convention Centerin Washington, DC.

Agenda items include: the five priorities of DHS acquisition, including the new Information Technology Acquisition Center (ITAC); TSWG's FY06 BAAs for combating-terrorism technologies; expected dramatic increases inDHS R&D budgets in FY06 for radiological and nuclear countermeasures, and large investments in counter-MANPADS technologies and bio-defense research; a Safety Act Update; making the jump from Defense contracting to partnering with DHS; partnering with primary contractors; and the emerging role of unmanned aerial vehicles.

If you mention this article and Mr. Badolato's name, you can receive a special discount for the conference.

IIA - Integrated Infrastructure Analytics, Inc. | leading provider of specialized power, water, and homeland security products and support services.

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Edward V. Badolato Distinguished Speaker Series

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During a Fox News interview in 2002, Ed Badolatodiscusses U.S. nuclear threat planning and Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan.

Edward Badolato was known professionally as an international expert in the fields of energy, contingency planning, and security, but to those who worked with Ed, hewas our friend, mentor, and leader. He founded IIA in 2005 using his fifty years of experience in the military, government, and corporate world to bring first-rate homeland security training and consulting services to clients throughout the world.

After retiring from a distinguished career in the Marine Corps, Colonel Badolato served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary during the Reagan and Bush Administrations (1985-1989) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).He was the Secretary of Energy's key troubleshooter for security matters and energy emergencies and the primary architect of the U.S. Government's nuclear weapons security programs. He headed a team that completely revamped and modernized the entire U.S. nuclear security forces. Also during his four-year appointment, he managed the vulnerability assessments of the coal, gas, power, and petroleum industries and developed plans to mitigate damage to the U.S. energy infrastructure from natural disasters, terrorism, and sabotage.

Upon leaving DOE, Ed Badolato founded Contingency Management Services, Inc., an international security consulting firm. He led efforts to clean up the bombs and explosives after Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait's oil fields for Texaco and Getty Oil Companies. In November 2002, CMS was acquired by the Shaw Group, and he was named Executive Vice President for the Shaw Group's Homeland Security activities. His wide range of experience and contacts allowed him to address a full range of security issues with major corporations, the U.S. government, and foreign governments. In the area of critical infrastructure protection, he managed assessments of the threat, vulnerability, and risk of the national power grids, natural gas infrastructures, petro-chemical facilities and maritime services.

Ed Badolato chaired several boards and participated on countless committees for the industry including the Homeland Security Industries Association and the National Cargo Security Council. He was appointed by the White House as Chairman of the FAA's Air Cargo SecurityWorking Group to study the potential for terrorist bombing attacks on commercial aircraft and was a member of theWhite House Interagency Group on Terrorism. He was the senior energy consultant for the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection and a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism.Although it was clear Ed was serious about bringing the private and government sectors together to make our nation safer, he also cared about our future and that meant nurturing the next generation of homeland security professionals.

Col. Badolato was proactive when it came to mentoring the next generation. Somehow he always found time in his busy schedule to teach a class at Georgetown University, a seminar at a small college like Patrick Henry, or deliver a keynote address to hundreds of professionals at a conference. He was active on the Board of Advisors for theU.S. Merchant Marine Academy's Global Maritime andSecurity Transportation School and served on the Board of Visitors for his alma mater, Towson University.

Our friend Ed was known to say, "I get more done before noon, than most people get done all day! He was right, andhe showed us what hard work, focus, and a brilliant mind can accomplish. He provided IIA with a solid work ethic and a wealth of information with which we can carry on his work. There will never be another Ed Badolato, but what hetaught us about leadership, honesty, patriotism, and a gold standard for quality will continue to live on in everyone who had the privilege to work with him.