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An Orange County defense contractor, who has contributed generously to both sides of the political aisle here, lost his high-level security clearance while fulfilling a Navy contract a local congressman sponsored.
Sabtech Industries, a small Yorba Linda firm that makes specialized Navy computer parts, has secured about $40 million in mostly no-bid government contracts during the past decade and enjoyed millions in exclusive earmarks from Congress. But last summer, according to the Department of Defense, a federal investigation led the department to suspend company president Rahim Sabadia's "secret"-level security clearance.
Sabtech abruptly stopped work on a classified contract worth up to $7.7 million.