Critz Attended Meeting on Earmark Project

• By Paul Singer
• Roll Call Staff
• March 10, 2010, Midnight

Mark Critz — the aide to the late Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) who was picked as the Democratic candidate to replace his boss — attended a 2005 meeting of defense contractors and lobbyists and offered the Congressman’s support for an earmark project that ended in the criminal convictions of three men last year.